Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

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.

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

One Fails Before One's Perception...!

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

I'm one of those fellas who's got lots of regrets, but I don't regret having regrets.

Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. Thats something that can discern the peace and love.