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Famous Quotes

• "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

  — Archimedes

• "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

  — Alexander Graham Bell

• "If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness."

  — Jeff Bezos

• "I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today."

  — Isambard Kingdom Brunel

• "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

  — Andrew Carnegie

• "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

  — Marie Curie

• "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

  — Charles Darwin

• "In God we trust; all others must bring data."

  — W. Edwards Deming

• "Quality is everyone's responsibility."

  — W. Edwards Deming

• "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

  — Walt Disney

• "Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."

  — Peter Drucker

• "Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success."

  — James Dyson

• "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

  — Thomas Edison

• "There's a way to do it better—find it."

  — Thomas Edison

• "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

  — Albert Einstein

• "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

  — Albert Einstein

• "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool."

  — Richard Feynman

• "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

  — Henry Ford

• "Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

  — Henry Ford

• "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

  — Benjamin Franklin

• "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

  — Bill Gates

• "Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave."

  — Eliyahu Goldratt

• "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

  — Steve Jobs

• "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

  — Steve Jobs

• "Without a standard, there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action."

  — Joseph Juran

• "If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it."

  — Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)

• "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

  — Leonardo da Vinci

• "If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it."

  — Elon Musk

• "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

  — Isaac Newton

• "Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced."

  — Taiichi Ohno

• "Without standards, there can be no improvement."

  — Taiichi Ohno

• "In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind."

  — Louis Pasteur

• "The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize."

  — Shigeo Shingo

• "If you don't make something happen, nothing happens."

  — William Shockley

• "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."

  — Solomon (Proverbs 1:7, KJV)

• "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold."

  — Solomon (Proverbs 3:13-14, KJV)

• "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding."

  — Solomon (Proverbs 4:7, KJV)

• "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."

  — Nikola Tesla

• "Before you say you can't do something, try it."

  — Kiichiro Toyota

• "Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."

  — Alan Turing

• "Change before you have to."

  — Jack Welch

• "One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work."

  — Eli Whitney

• "If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance."

  — Orville Wright