Quality Management Quotes

“The road to your highest achievements leads through environments that support you.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Why doesn’t every fire once kindled, survive and thrive? Why doesn’t every person accomplish her dreams? The simple answer is that the Firestarter’s life is a constant fight against extinction.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“What others view as setbacks, Firestarters see as opportunities to learn and grow more.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“If you feel you don’t know the right people, turn to the next person you see on the street and introduce yourself—that connection could be the key to your future.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“If you want to make a difference, you must live like no one else and strive to achieve goals that others view as impossible to reach.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Interest isn’t just something you feel. It’s something you live.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Firestarters are able to make associations between similar situations and use lessons learned from one sphere of their lives to inform actions and thoughts in seemingly unrelated situations. They look for patterns of success, and then they pounce on situations that have proven to be generators of that success.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“The exciting news is that you’re not only the customer who wants a 5-star career; you’re also the one and only person who has the power to manufacture it. Once you understand the relationship between you as the customer and you as the manufacturer, nothing can stop you in your quest for quality.”
― Penelope Przekop, 5-Star Career

“Accomplishing our quality goals should be straightforward, efficient, and productive.”
― Penelope Przekop, Six Sigma for Business Excellence

“Customer satisfaction is the key determinant of quality. If a product satisfies the customer or meets the customer's specifications, then it is acceptable. Otherwise, it is defective in some way. To define the quality of any product, one must fully understand customer needs and specifications.”
― Penelope Przekop, Six Sigma for Business Excellence

“If the product manager you’re working with has never brought a product to market, then thats kind of a non-starter because there’s elements to inheriting an existing product and keeping it going versus Greenfield and bringing it all the way into market.”
― Derrick Boudwin

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