What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.

I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special

Management's job is to optimize the whole system.

Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay

Change the rule and you will get a new number.

The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.

Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work.