We are here to make another world.

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.

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

I am not going to ask that old man if his family home is haunted!

I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.

Kitten." His voice was thick with something I couldn't name. "This is the part... where you don't have a choice.

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.

Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.