Business Quote by Kent Beck

The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.

— Phil Crosby

The costs of poor quality are tangible; they will cost you customers and money, and ultimately affect the success of your business.

— Subir Chowdhury

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.

— W. Edwards Deming

Cost is the only issue when there is no value. When there is value, the cost is irrelevant.

— Carl A Dixon

You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

— Karl Albrecht

It costs a lot to build bad products

— Norman Ralph Augustine

No one knows the cost of a defective product - don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not…

— W. Edwards Deming

We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result.…

— Henry Ford

It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions…

— Alan Tower Waterman

Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of…

— W. Edwards Deming

Highlighting expensive repair costs to your vendor can also be a powerful negotiating tool.

— Chris Humphreys

The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.

— Andrew Carnegie