Replacing Quotes

• No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Me
  • Cost
  • Customer

• Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Trees
  • Beams
  • Planted

• Sure, I’m sad, but I’m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and they’re allowed to be single, and they don’t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. She’s good enough as she is.

  

  Charlotte Green
  • Women
  • Relationship
  • Sadness

• I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Response

• The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

  

  Vitalik Buterin
  • Revolution
  • Industrial
  • Replacing

• To be neurotic is to spend one’s life perpetually replacing one worry with the next.

  

  David H. Levy
  • Worry
  • Neurotic
  • Replacing

• Orders were issued by the Sublime Court to dismiss the Hindu Chowkinavis and to appoint in their place Musalmans, and, likewise, a way should be found for replacing the Amins of the Haft-chowkis by the Musalmans.

  

  Aurangzeb
  • Orders
  • Replacing
  • Musalmans

• In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

  

  Alexander Schmemann
  • Religion
  • Christianity
  • Replacing

• So many times through the course of a season you are defined by your backups. They have three players in Kirk Cousins, Niles Paul and Bashaud Breeland who may be better than the players that they’re replacing.

  

  Bill Cowher
  • Players
  • Season
  • Replacing