My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Peter Drucker

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Peter Drucker

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

Peter Drucker

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

Peter Drucker

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ellen DeGeners

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.

Homer Simpson

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results

Milton Friedman

The best rule of thumb for estimating software costs is to say it will cost more than anyone ever imagined.

Tom Capers Jones (godfather CMM)

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

Confucius

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Peter Drucker

Whom the gods want to destroy, they send 30 years of success. In the midst of your success, the seeds of failure are sown, and the signals are often very subtle.

Peter Drucker 

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

Peter Drucker 

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Peter Drucker

Tell me and I will forget, show me and I wll remember, inspire me and I will get involved.

Confucius

If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!

Peter Drucker

Until we can manage time we can manage nothing else.

Peter Drucker

In God We Trust. All others bring data.

William Edwards Deming

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

William Edwards Deming

If you give a manager a numerical target, he’ll make it, even if he has to destroy the company in the process.

William Edwards Deming

Beat horses, and they will run faster - for a while.

William Edwards Deming

A bad system will defeat a good person every time.

William Edwards Deming

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

William Edwards Deming

By what method? An aim without a method is useless

William Edwards Deming

A method without an aim is dangerous.

William Edwards Deming

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution.

Albert Einstein