We want best efforts guided by theory.

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.

Power is a beautiful thing.

I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

Is the cinema more important than life?

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.