These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.
Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.
I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
There are places on earth where we can catch a glimpse of heaven.