Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.

There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.

You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.

Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

I go crazy if I'm not working. I find it harder to have down time. I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be working on this job otherwise I go insane.

A good attitude for a woman is to be confident, and to be confident is to be natural.

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

You might be a redneck if you think Silence of the Lambs is what happens when Larry walks out to the barn.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I started out in a kid’s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can’t touch you, they can’t tackle you.

In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.