Faf de Klerk Quotes

Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances and because they don't have the right execution.

My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and frequently it wasn't.

Crosscheck is a really valuable tool.

I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organisation is.

And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

We are constantly working towards the highest level of compliance possible.

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.

As we were growing retail, and it was a huge growth phase, it was very important to keep our quality under control. Therefore, it was not just distribution, not just back-office operations, but also the risk-management practices. And these we learned together, supported by technology.

We are constantly auditing our supply chain. Making sure that safety standards are - are, you know, are the highest. We're making sure that working conditions are the highest.

Back to Microsoft days, I'm always looking for, 'OK, that's great, but what can go wrong?'

Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.

In any technology, one has to be very careful to ensure that it is good and has enough safeguards.

Our goal is to set the gold standard when it comes to compliance.

Safety is always a paramount concern for us. We are always engaged with the studios and with what better structures can be done.

I'm a process person. Process is a manifestation of values.

As a player, it's better to wait a moment for the correct call than be let down by an incorrect call.