The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.
First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.
Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.
Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.