Ifs Quote by Henry Ford

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Standardization Is the Basis for Continuous Improvement and Quality”

— Jeffrey K. Liker

“Yet, standardization only leads to sameness, not necessarily quality, and rarely to excellence (p. 9).”

— Thomas Newkirk

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

— Steve Eisman

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

— Masaaki Imai

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

— Elsie de Wolfe

Without standards, there can be no improvement.

— Taiichi Ohno

It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will…

— Masaaki Imai

We are all seeking to live up to normative standards that we recognize, even if we don't all recognize the same standards. This is…

— Samuel Scheffler

There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.

— Komla Dumor

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

— Douglas McGregor

We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

— Tom Peters