Phil Crosby Quotes

Quality is easy to talk but hard to make.

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

I basically try to give people top quality.

I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can.

Strive for perfection in everything you do.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

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

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.

If you're going to be world-class, you have to focus.

I just want to do the best I can every time.

I am ambitious to do good work and do it really well.

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.