We know what we told him, but we don't know what he heard.

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.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

There are 613, 806, 639 men in the world. Statistically, God has got you covered! So, never worry about one person not caring about you. Someone up to the challenge will always take his place.

A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.