Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.

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.

Men will now get up and walk with the baby in the middle of the night change its diapers and give it a bottle but in their heart of hearts they still think they shouldn't have to.

Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you.

It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries.

The sign of the people of bid’ah is that they do not follow the salaf.

What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.

There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.