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Quality
assurance in a service business happens before production, not after.
Quality
has no fear of time.
Quality
has to be caused, not controlled.
Quality
is a choice that management can make.
Quality
is a race without a finish line.
Quality
is long remembered after cost is forgotten.
Quality
is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere
effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise
choice of many alternatives.
Quality
is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
Quality
is never your problem. It is the
solution to your problem.
Quality
is no longer a critical determinant in a buying decision.
Quality
is not an act. It is a habit.
Quality
is remembered long after price is forgotten.
Quantity
has a quality all its own. (Stalin)
Quitting is not a success strategy. You can’t quit your way to the top.
Quitting is not the same as failing.
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R & D
– Rob and Duplicate
Radical Obsolescence-Not Evolution.
Rage,
rage at the dying of the light.
Rahm: It’s not about intimacy; it’s all about the immediacy of the advice.
No one has his ear except those he reaches out to from time to time. (MA)
Raise the ante of effort and concentration in order to clear your mind of
trivialities.
Raising
money is a contact sport. Direct, repeated contacts are a must.
Rank and
yank.
Rapport
is no substitute for credibility.
Rapture
becomes you.
Rat in a
draw.
Rat-like
cunning.
Read
between the lines.
Read less, know more
Ready and able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could
become.
Reagan
used to say that freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.
Real
antagonism is based on love, a love that has not recognized itself.
Real art
is communal and active.
Real
artists ship.
Real
eyes realize real lies.
Real
failure is when the data tells you that you are doing the wrong thing and you
keep doing it anyway.
Real
insight comes from outside.
Real job
security lies in creating value.
Real
knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
Real
leadership is a balance between intensity and consistency.
Real political work is the intentional, strategic
accumulation of power in service of a defined end. It is action in service of
change, not information in service of outrage.
Real
power is when you’re doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing, the best
it can be done.
Reality
is okay, but as a lifestyle, I find it too confining.
Reality
is something you rise above.
Reality
seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality
is therefore abandoned.
Realizations
occur, related without splendor or epiphanies.
Reason
can be the ultimate defense mechanism.
Reason
has nothing to do with it. I'm a
scorpion, it's my character.
Reasons
and excuses are made up because the realities are just too painful. (B.
Diller)
Recipes
create meals and cooks; they don’t create chefs. (Map – Compass)
Recognition, like money, like power, is not
evenly distributed.
Recognizing your faults doesn't mean you lack self-esteem. It
shows you have self-awareness.
Recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something
unpleasant after a period of relief.
Rediscover
wonder.
Redo
and Renew
Nighttime:
Reflection; Hope; Longing and Guilt
Refusing
to accept things as they are – overcome the daunting power of the status quo
Refusing
to look at unpleasant facts doesn’t make them go away.
Registering as an independent is like telling a
charitable fund-raiser that you want to help by sending good thoughts.
Regret
for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we
did not do that is inconsolable.
Regulation
lags innovation.
Reinforce
success, abandon failure.
Reinvention
never ends.
Relationships
are a function of proximity.
Relationships,
and life, has limits and possibilities.
Relationships
aren’t supposed to be easy; they’re supposed to be honest.
Relationships
that do not end peacefully do not end at all.
Relief is
the largest reaction that I have to a project that’s well received. I don’t celebrate. I don’t have victory parties. I simply feel relief.
Relief is the most
powerful emotion.
Religion
causes as many problems as it solves.
Relaxing
does no good if you feel guilty about it.
Release
early, release often.
Religion
is only the most refined version of human ignorance.
Religion
poisons everything.
Rely not
on the teacher, but on the teaching; rely not on the words of the teaching, but
on the spirit of the words; rely not on theory, but on experience.
Remember, every single day of your life, the people you love could
be gone tomorrow. Life is very fragile. You can’t count on ever having a lot of
time left.
Remember
that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Remember
that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Remember
the distinction between contribution and commitment. Take the matter of bacon and eggs. The chicken makes a contribution. The pig makes a commitment.
Remember:
there are always other jobs.
Remember
to live.
Remember to play your whole movie — not just the
clip of your latest stumble on repeat.
“Remember
when” is the lowest form of conversation.
Remember,
where there is no solution, there is no problem.
Remember
why you started.
Remember
your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
Renewals
are business, terminations are personal.
Renown
requires deeds.
Repetition
is a convincing argument.
Repetition
is critical for memory.
Reputation
and integrity are your most valuable assets and can be lost in a heartbeat.
Resentment
is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Resilience
is a muscle.
Resistance
to Redmond is not futile – it’s just too often feeble.
Respect in a family is about fear
of the consequences.
Respect
in yourself the oscillations of feelings: they are your life and your nature; a
wiser one than you made them.
Respond,
don’t react.
Respond
with intention rather than regret.
Responses
to threats and unpleasantness are faster, stronger and harder to inhibit than
responses to opportunities and pleasures.
Responsibility: tension between weight and opportunity.
Responsibility
is best taken, not given.
Responsibility
is proportionate to opportunity.
Resting and vesting
Restraint
and mercy were always strangers to me.
Resume
virtues versus eulogy virtues (Brooks)
Retail is
detail.
Retire
now, but don’t quit working.
Revenge
is sweet.
Reverence
of selfishness.
Reverse
Pyramid of Knowledge
Reverse
Roadmap. Plan backwards. Set your goals and then work backwards from them to
see how to achieve them. You may determine that there is NO path to get you
there.
Revolutions
are never instigated by men of action, but by men of thought.
Rich
enough to have never touched an appliance.
Rich
man’s war, poor man’s fight.
Rich
or poor, it's nice to have money.
Rich people buy luxuries last while poor people
buy luxuries first.
Rickrolling: You troll someone on
the internet by linking to the music video for Rick Astley's 1987 hit song
“Never Gonna Give You Up.”
Ride
someone else’s rails.
Ride the
horse in the direction that it’s going.
Ride
sharing is the tobacco of the gig economy
Riding a
bike: If you’re moving, however slowly,
you don’t fall down. But if you try to
stand still, you fall.
Righteousness
doesn’t stand a chance against the imagination.
Rigs,
rednecks & royalties - cowboystan
Rings and
jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Risk is a
randomness whose probability can be determined.
Uncertainty implies unknown and perhaps unknowable probabilities.
Risk is
the true cost of aggressive objectives.
Rock ‘n’
roll can’t change the world, but it can change a person and that’s as good a
place to start as any.
Rock ‘n’
roll comes down to myth – there are no facts.
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Role
models, not runway models.
Rough
work, honorable or not, takes the life out of us.
Rouse
tempers, goad and lacerate, raise whirlwinds.
Routine
is a link with the past.
Routinization
of anything is self-immolating. It
deadens alertness, attentiveness, imagination, energy and reaction time.
RPA –
Robotic process automation
Rudeness
is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.
Rules
cannot take the place of character.
Run
through walls.
Running a
company based on market research is like driving while looking in the rear-view
mirror.
Running
around like a lost dog at a meat market.
Running a
show is like being beaten to death with your own dream.
Russia:
a gas station masquerading as a country (John McCain)
Russian
dolls: if you hire people smaller than you, you become a company of dwarfs; if
you hire people bigger than you, you become a company of giants.