People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.

There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.

The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for