You can not hear what you do not understand.

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.

Cauldron save you.Mother hold you.Pass through the gates, and smell that immortal land of milk and honey.Fear no evil.Feel no pain.Go, and enter eternity.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

Neither here, nor there. But everywhere.

It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.

I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.

It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles.

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

I think people are very focused on the economic issues. They want an economy that works for everybody.