The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.

Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.

We didn't have steroids. If I wanted to get pumped up, I drank a case of beer.

What we've been trying to do is difficult. You know it's difficult to win one, to win two. Madness to win three. But to try and come back to win it again should be impossible really.

We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there be body or not? That is a point which we must take for granted in all our reasonings.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts.

Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.