Ishikawa Kaoru Quotes & Sayings

Failure is the seed of success — Kaoru Ishikawa

Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise. — Kaoru Ishikawa

The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable. — Kaoru Ishikawa

Quality control which cannot show results is not quality control. Let us engage in QC which makes so much money for the company that we do not know what to do with it. — Kaoru Ishikawa

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it. — Adrian Grenier

Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me. — Ronnie Lott

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries. — Orson Scott Card

We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

Talk about what you know and you won't get so angry — Nancy Mitford

I want to avoid injuries by running only road. — Haile Gebrselassie

Quality control starts and ends with training. — Kaoru Ishikawa

When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them! — Kaoru Ishikawa

As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools. — Kaoru Ishikawa

In management, the first concern of the company is the happiness of people who are connected with it. If the people do not feel happy and cannot be made happy, that company does not deserve to exist. — Kaoru Ishikawa

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. — Michael Herr

I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s. — Anthony Kiedis

As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating. — Kaoru Ishikawa

When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think. — Benedict Cumberbatch