The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

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No one can remember more than three points.

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Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.

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In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

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Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

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Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

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Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

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Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

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Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

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Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

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Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

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If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

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Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

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We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

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Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

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Successful people breed success.

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The great discoveries are usually obvious.

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