To copy is to invite disaster.

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.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

I was perhaps one of the few people that were not part of [Pablo Escobar] group of yes-men because I was not a direct beneficiary of the violence that his actions generated.

She was getting bitchy.That was a good sign. "What am I supposed to do till you get back?" I said, patting the smouldering leather. "Hide in my closet? I"d rather be with you.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.