We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.

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.

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.

At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

I’d noticed that his eyes were black – coal black.