Favorite Quotes

Six Sigma ... "the most powerful powerful breakthrough management tool ever devised"
Mikel Harry and Richard Schroeder
                    Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Management  Strategy Revolutionizing the World's Top Corporations
   
"Six Sigma is arguably the most important business and industry initiative that has involved statistical thinking and methods."
Ronald D. Snee
  "Impact of Six Sigma on Quality Engineering" Quality Engineering Volume 12, Number 3, 2000
   
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
Peter F. Drucker
   
"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."
Peter F. Drucker
 
"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
Peter F. Drucker
 
"The good things take care of themselves. We want to find all the negatives."
Wayne Huizenga
 
“Why spend all this time finding, fixing and fighting when you could have prevented the problem in the first place?”
Philip Crosby
 
"A common pattern emerges. A few pioneer companies adopt or develop a program and achieve great initial success. The business press takes notice and other companies seek to emulate the pioneers. But as the idea spreads,  it becomes diluted. Senior management tries to adopt the model without ever really comprehending what is required to make the program successful. These followers want the results but are unwilling to put the same efforts in as the pioneers. They fail to measure their results and lack clear, focus goals. It is almost as if the ideas have a half-life, like fissionable materials, losing substance as they pass from organization to organization."
Stanly Marash, Fusion Management
 
"Actions fail, individuals do not. In other words, you failed at something because of what you did or didn't do, not because of who you are. Actions can be changed. Failure is a temporary state that can be turned into success by taking the right action. Believing this is the key to developing a winner's mindset."
 
 
"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."
Jim Rohn
 
“If you’re looking for a mentor you might end up with a turkey! Do not fixate on a mentor. You should be looking everywhere for mentors, taking the best of everyone.”
Jack Welch, IQPC Summit Keynote Speaker



 



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