It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.

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.

Please Tommy. Please.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

To move forward simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest just happens as a beautiful and effortless flow.

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

I drive a lot of joy from being able to help others and helping put them on the path that they want.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.

I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.