Steve Ells Quotes

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

A cheap suit is a cheap suit; there's nothing you can do about it.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

Build to a standard, not a price.

Everybody wants to own quality, but quality takes time, and it takes money.

Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay

I have very often held a view - and I am public about it - that if you run your operations inefficiently, you can't expect your consumer to pay for your inefficiencies.

If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.

If you see something that doesn't make sense, ask. Change it. Think about dollars, think about your soldiers' time, think about efficiency.

I want to find the right projects. I'm not going to take just anything.

To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.

We believe that our cost effectiveness is one of our most powerful competitive advantages in Networks, and we will not lose sight of that in the future.

It's amazing what a little money can do when it's spent on the right reason.

Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if cost is not an issue. Similarly, to build a new company, you must manage scarce resources.

Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you'll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in life, it's the right thing to do.

You're a smart person. You're going to figure out where you can be more effective and more efficient with your own resources, and that's going to put more of an investment and emphasis on your future.

If you spend £200million, £300m every year, obviously, even if you make mistakes, you have a good team, but without spending so much money, you can still improve and do well.

Bayen need quality, you have to invest and upgrade!

We're going to make the product as good as we can, and we're going to try to put it out as reasonably priced as we can. We don't want a $600 shirt. We want a shirt which is around $100.

I think that we're trying to look at all of our assets and figure out what's the best use and where we need to make investments in infrastructure to enable the projects that we want.

Sometimes we think that the more expensive brands will be more effective. Sometimes if you stick to the basics, that's what really matters. That's what I do anyway.

It's important to offer well-thought-out pieces at lower prices.