A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat.

Are you depressed?What? I don't know. Probably. Isn't everyone?

One of the fastest ways to dispel greed is for a person to realize how blessed he already is.

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you.

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

You are mine, Aisling. You are mine today, tomorrow and five hundred years from now. You will always be mine. I do not give up my treasures, kincsem. You would do well to remember that.

Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God.

I've always been driven to buck the system.