A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, but make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Everybody makes mistakes.

In periods of prosperity, we increase the number of our employees with great prudence.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.

If a job doesn’t excite you on some level - just because of the stuff of it - don’t settle.

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

Simplicity is an indispensable element of a leader's most important functions.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

The customer is the most important part of the production line.

The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

Two basic rules of life are: 1) change is inevitable, 2) everybody resists change.