Leo Fender Quotes

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

The process of building a part doesn't really stop.

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.

I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'

A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.

To make a perfect t-shirt is hard - all you have is white cotton and fit. that's where experience comes in.

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.

I do not write, I build.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

I just wondered how things were put together.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.

To customers, it's the shirt that matters, not where it's made.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.