“We are here to make another world.”

In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.

A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

What should be the aim of management? What is their job?

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.

You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.

Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.

Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.

Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.