Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

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.

The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.

One has to get rid of the self. Once the self is thrown away, nothing is lacking. You start overflowing and blossoms start falling on you.

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

I got 6 jobs I don't get TIRED!

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Ask yourself: Does the job touch my heart and feed my soul? You will never be what you were meant to be if you aren't having fun.

A house is more than just a shelter; that it is a way of improving your way of life.