A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.

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.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

I would fain grow old learning many things.

I love performing in Las Vegas.

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.