A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone.

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.

W- Work of ArtA- AchieverR- ResilientR- RadicalI- IndependentO- OrganizedR- Resourceful

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.

My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

I can ski out of my back door.

It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.

After I won the Heisman Trophy, it just was OK, I’m supposed to go to the NFL and so that’s what I did. I didn’t really have any expectations and I didn’t really understand how things worked.