“Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.”

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.

DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

We add to it every now and then. It includes things like never date a guy whose computer costs more than his car (you’ll never get him to pay attention to you except over instant messages)

When I am king, I will revise the sexual bases system so that getting to first base will include oral sex and sodomy!

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

That includes people who call themselves Muslims but who don’t lead their lives as such – people who drink, who don’t pray, who don’t fast, who have constantly changing partners and who are unable to recite the Koran.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

Real freedom must include economic security.