A. W. F. Edwards Quotes

Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.

The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.

We know what we told him, but we don't know what he heard.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

Many people in management are being paid to produce waste.

I can't think of anything I would do differently in my life. It would be nice to undo some of my mistakes I made over the years, but then I wouldn't have grown professionally or personally.

Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.

When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think about the problem".

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

You gotta have a little kid in you to play football.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Profit in business comes from repeat customers

Some politicians like to kiss babies. I like to kiss the baby's mommas.

You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.

A rule should suit the purpose.

We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences

Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

To copy is to invite disaster.

I am not reporting things about people. I am reporting things about practices.

Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain.

Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.

You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.

Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.

The worst of days with Jesus are still better than the best of days without Him.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.

We are here to make another world.

Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

Without questions, there is no learning.