Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

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.

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

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good.

Where could I call home? Only in my heart.

Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level.

Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.

People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

Waking up in the morning, you didn't have to even think, you did it. Being able to get to work, didn't even have to think, you did it. That's miraculous.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe only one thing: that by his act he will change the course of history.