Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.

There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.

Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state.

To forgive is to set someone free.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.