Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.

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.

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

Reading leads to good conduct

The diversity of different colours is displayed in a rainbow.

Life will always have the value that you give it.

We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

If you want to attain some heights in your life, you have to walk every minute.

I have great judgment. I have good judgment. I know what's going on.

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.