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.

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.

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.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

You become what you allow yourself to become.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'

I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.

Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

By getting the Word deep into your spirit and speaking it boldly out your mouth, you release spiritual power to change things in the natural circumstances.

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.