Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

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.

I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.

Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.

Everything is but what we think it.

I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.