A. W. F. Edwards Quotes

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

Quality starts in the boardroom.

I love like the 80s look - 80s and early 90s, like the high-waisted jeans and the crop tops, and the floral prints, and flowers and stuff like that. Big baggy jumpers... yeah, stuff like that.

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!

It's about people who take their frustration out on everyone around them. I never raise my voice. Cutting myself or hurting myself is the way I deal with anger.

A leader's job is to help his people.

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

If your fans are listening to the music and they can relate to it, they'll relate to it a lot more if it comes from us.

Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.

Hunger is an escort to the deeper things of [God].

The goals and successes of my professional life pale in comparison to my personal goals of an eternal family, receiving exaltation and being with the Savior again.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

The only thing that would keep me from winning the election is to be caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler.

Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?

...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.

Quitting is not an option. I will not let anyone on this team quit.

You play to win the game.

You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?

Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.

People work in the system. Management creates the system

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.

I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.

Come be the fire inside of me, come be the flame upon my heart. Come be the fire inside of me until You and I are one.

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.

If someone can make a contribution to the company he feels important.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.