If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

You can't control what you can't measure

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.

I’m starving to learn more about her. A new hunger that I know only she could satisfy.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

In the industrial nations, there's a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you Europeans came along. And we didn't do all that poorly either.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.