The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for 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.

Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them… they can be the greatest moments of our lives.

An undaunted author, is the one who will succeed. There is no misfortune, that can dim their optimism.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

You got to stand up and be a man. You can't just keep running off.

My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right.

If you want to continue leading, you must continue changing.

Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three.

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

I don't like to end my talk with a 700 million dollar loss, even if it shows the importance of Numerical Analysis.