Henry Royce Quotes

Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, OBE was an English engineer and car designer who, with Charles Rolls and Claude Johnson, founded the Rolls-Royce company.

✵ 27. March 1863 – 22. April 1933
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Famous Henry Royce Quotes

“I have only one regret … that I have not worked harder.”

Deathbed assertion, as quoted in Outlook Business, Vol. 3, No. 4 (23 February 2008)

“Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.”

As quoted in A Dictionary of Marketing (2011) by Charles Doyle, p. 391
Context: Small things make perfection, but perfection is no small thing … Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.

“Strive for perfection in everything we do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough.”

Slogan for the Rolls-Royce company, quoted in Transforming the Organization (1996) by Francis J. Gouillart, p. 85

“The quality will remain long after the price is forgotten.”

As quoted in "Rolls-Royce Quotations" at the Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club http://www.rroc.org/content.asp?pl=535&sl=607&contentid=607

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