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> # Quantity is quality

[Joseph Stalin](https://quotesby.net/Joseph-Stalin)\#34

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## About this quote

What does it mean?The sheer number of something can determine its quality or effectiveness.In plain termsHaving more of something can make it better.What can you take from it?Scale can act as a form of quality.

### Where it applies

- manufacturing
- logistics
- resource allocation

### Putting it to work

- prioritizing output volume
- batch processing

### Questions to consider

- When does quantity equal quality?
- What defines value?

### Another view

More does not always mean better if standards are low.

## More from Joseph Stalin

1. > What shall we do? We shall envy!

[Permalink to quote \#33](https://quotesby.net/Joseph-Stalin/33/ "Permalink to quote 33")
2. > When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope.

[Permalink to quote \#35](https://quotesby.net/Joseph-Stalin/35/ "Permalink to quote 35")
3. > Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

[Permalink to quote \#32](https://quotesby.net/Joseph-Stalin/32/ "Permalink to quote 32")

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2. > I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

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