Quality Quote: “You can’t change the wind but you can adjust the sails”
Quality Quote: “You can’t change the wind, but you can adjust the sails” — echoing ISO 9001 Clause 6.3 on Planning of Changes to the quality management system.
“You can’t change the wind, but you can adjust the sails.”
In the ISO 9001 context, this echoes ISO 9001 Clause 6.3, Planning of Changes: plan for changes, manage risks and continually update and improve the quality management system to address changes to the organisation, including processes, products, customers, markets, technologies and partnerships.
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Attributed to Henry Ford
Often Credited to Aristotle
“If you keep cutting corners, eventually you will end up going in circles”
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it
“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten”
“We can change the conditions under which humans work” (James Reason)
