The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.
W. Edwards DemingHe that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.
W. Edwards Deming