Frases de Philip Crosby

“As coisas boas acontecem quando são planejadas e as más por conta própria.”

“A maioria dos gerentes estão tão preocupados com o dia de hoje, e em resolver nossos próprios problemas reais e imaginários, que são incapazes de planejar ações corretivas ou positivas com mais de uma semana de antecedência.”

“The first erroneous assumption is that quality means goodness, or luxury, or shininess or weight. The word "quality" is used to signify the relative worth of things in such phrases as "good quality," "bad quality," and that brave new statement 'quality of life.' 'Quality of life' is a cliche because each listener assumes that the speaker means exactly what he or she, the listener, means by the phrase. It is a situation in which individuals talk dreamily about something without ever bothering to define it.”

“Most managers are so concerned with today, and with getting our own real and imagined problems settled, that we are incapable of planning corrective or positive actions more than a week or so ahead.”

“The problem of quality management is not what people don't know about it. The problem is what the think they do know.”

“A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.”

“Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet.”

“Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.”

“Management has to get right in there and be active when it comes to quality.”

“Quality is conformance to requirements - nothing more, nothing less.”

“In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.”

“Quality is free, but no one is ever going to know it if there isn't some sort of agreed-on system of measurement. Quality has always suffered from the lack of an obvious method of measurement in spite of the fact such a method was developed by General Electric in the 1950' s as a tool for determining the need for corrective action on a specific product line.”