Reengineering eliminates work, not jobs or people.

Automating a mess yields an automated mess.

Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.

If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most.

As far as beauty is concerned in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.

Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

Be the change you're trying to create