80s Quote by Les Wexner

In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The…

— W. Edwards Deming

I just want to say one thing about the '70s. Enough with this purer, "It was a better time," business. Every time is about…

— Jerry Saltz

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

— Tom Peters

In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a…

— Jerry Saltz

I don't agree that there's an over-abundance of a lack of quality.

— Brad Friedel

Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

— Jan Carlzon

“Earlier generations of Americans had to strive to provide food, clothing, and shelter for themselves and their children. This task could prove laborious, unending,…

— Dinesh D'Souza

We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it.

— Phil Crosby

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

— Richard Rosen

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

— Edward Bond

Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

— W. Edwards Deming

Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.

— Willy Bogner, Jr