Quality vs. Quantity

I have often heard interesting comments from developers:

• Our team does not write unit tests because we don’t have time for them.
• Our product owner does not want us to refactor a problematic functionality since she prefers to spend that time on new feature development.
• We have technical debt because the business asked us to deliver something quickly to production.

All these statements point in a single direction; developers believe that business prefers quantity over quality. Let us discuss this hypothesis below.