“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” Aristotle, Greek philosopher (384 BC to 322 BC) Related ISO services Streamline designs, audits and mentors practical ISO management systems built to certify first time, from ISO 9001 quality to ISO 27001 information security and ISO 42001 AI management. Explore our ISO 9001 quality management and […]
Category: Quality Quote
Quality Quote: The fastest way to starve a horse is to assign two people to feed it
Quality Quote: The fastest way to starve a horse is to assign two people to feed it. Author Unknown. The point here isn’t about hungry horses. It is about the allocation and distribution of responsibilities. If one person responsible = one person is wholly and solely accountable. If two people are responsible, the responsibility is […]
Quality Quote: An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind
Quality Quote: “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.” Attributed variously to Gandhi, Louis Fischer, Henry Powell Spring and Martin Luther King. All have offered different iterations, but the principle is the same: violent retaliatory action escalates situations, leaving all parties worse off. For more information on this quote, read the […]
Quality Quote: The art of persuasion is greater than the strength of force.
Quality Quote: “The art of persuasion is greater than the strength of force.” The North Wind and the Sun, from Aesop’s Fables (Perry Index 46). The fable of the North Wind and the Sun tells of a wager between the two, who each argue they are more powerful than the other. The North Wind tries […]
Quality Quote: Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve Jobs.
Today’s quality quote: “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
Steven Paul Jobs: American inventor, designer, and entrepreneur who was the co-founder of Apple Computer who oversaw revolutionary products such as the iPhone and iPad that have dictated the evolution of modern technology.
Quality Quote: Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody has thought
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” Albert Szent-Györgyi (16/09/1893 to 22/10/1986), Hungarian biochemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. Related ISO services Streamline designs, audits and mentors practical ISO management systems built to certify first time, from ISO 9001 quality […]
Quality Quote “Without data, you are just another person with an opinion”
Today’s quality quote is from William Edwards Deming: “Without data, you are just another person with an opinion.” This statement is so true. Quantitative data is key to measuring performance against established quality objectives and determining the effectiveness of an organisation’s ISO 9001 quality management system. But the reverse is also true, as set out […]
