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.

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.

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.

Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature.

I guess you have to born in the Pit to find light where there isn’t any.

There are two kinds of cultures in this world: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where all that matters is who you are. You can be the former or you can suck.

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

I keep doing specials because I think there are a lot of people who make movies and TV who are fans of comedy - if they start to like you, they'll get a project going and call you in.

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.

When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.