Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Quality is easy to talk but hard to make.

Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

Neil and I share a desire for great quality in our work. If we are offered projects, look at projects, or consider projects that don't have that quality, then we don't do them.

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.

Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

One thing I've learned: My intentions are clear in terms of quality.

I basically try to give people top quality.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

I have always believed in quality work.

Nintendo is a company of Kyoto craftsmen, and what we don't want to do is, if we know we can make something better, we don't want to leave that behind.

I always want people to realise that whatever I do is a quality product. And that's what's really important to me.

I have an obsession for quality.

Whatever you do big or small, do it well or don't do it at all.

Make no compromise in quality.

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

People do eventually see something that's quality.

Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.