Everything not saved will be lost. –Nintendo “Quit Screen” message

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.

Guys, you can date whomever you want, but marry a girl who can back up a trailer.

I've been looking at people and how they change with the times, and lately all I've been seeing are people throwing love away and losing their minds.

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

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.

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.

The thicker one gets with some people the thinner they become.

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

Happiness is a state a mind, not a dress size.

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

One must steer, not talk.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.