Henry Ford (1863-1947), the American businessman who founded Ford Motor Company, is widely credited with saying quality means doing the right thing when no one is looking.
“Quality means doing the right thing when no one is looking.”
Widely attributed to Henry Ford (1863-1947), American businessman
A note on the source: we have not been able to trace this line to anything Ford wrote or said, so treat the attribution as unconfirmed.
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