Every generation thinks that they invented sex.

Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.

In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must question why each step is performed. Typically, you will find that many steps exist in your work flow for no good reason. Often they are there by tradition or because formal procedure ordains it, and nothing practical ordains it.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Only the paranoid survive.