America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

Automating a mess yields an automated mess.

Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

Reengineering eliminates work, not jobs or people.

A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.

If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

A man never grows out of wanting and desiring money that follows him through life.

Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.

We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.

If you know you're supported, you're going to work harder, you're going to be more focused on your mission.

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

Sticking to it is the genius.