John Lasseter Quotes

I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.

Great companies are built on great products.

Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.

If you get the product and technology right, then the rest usually falls into place.

There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality.

Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

Quality will save our company.

In real business, there's spiritual success and then there's facts and just hard work and making sure you're on point with the product.

I believe if you start a business with the intent of making it huge, you're already prioritizing the wrong thing. Size is important, but it's a byproduct of a whole bunch of other things that are worth way more of your mental energy - customers, service, quality.

What I'm good at is making sure we have the best resources, the best talent, the best marketing, and the best access to distribution.

On 'Bar Rescue,' failure is not an option. I have to try to turn the business around.

Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

I can't force the direction that it's going to go without actually taking the time to make sure it's a great, great quality product. Whether that's for apparel, or whatever the case may be.

We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.

If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.

An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks.