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Quotations about quality

Martin Luther KingIf a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

 - Martin Luther King

Tags:   excellence  inspiration  quality  work  

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

 - Bill Bernbach

Tags:   advertising  quality  

Charles DickensWhatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

 - Charles Dickens

Tags:   devotion  quality  

Steve JobsWhen you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on tile back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

 - Steve Jobs

Tags:   quality  

Horace Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity.

 - Horace

Tags:   quality  quantity  writing