Quality Obsession Quotes

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

Obsess about the quality of the product.

I don't make records to win awards. I make records to make records and hopefully make the records as good as they can be.

I wasn't a girl who grew up wearing dresses, but I was always attracted to fabric. When we'd go to a shop, the fabric I'd pick was always the most expensive. It was always the silk or cashmere. It was something in me, that desire to choose quality. It's the same now.

Web projects aren't done until I'm happy, or someone changes the password to the server. A formal release does not stop me from working on it more.

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap, that good things will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that's what we're seeing.

Our customers are quality maniacs.

I'm a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren't, I wouldn't have this company... I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.

I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.

I'm one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I'm out of control with it. I'm just gonna use every feature to make me outrageous - the best.

I don't like doing substandard work... I can't sleep at night if I make a bad song.

But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.

I'll kind of tend to beat myself up because I just want it to sound better than better.

I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

I have an obsession for quality. I work for my guests, not to obtain Michelin stars.

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.