He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

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.

You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man’s responsibility for the family

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

There's been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections.

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.