ProcessQuotes

"If I asked my customers what he wanted, they would have told me a faster horse"

- Henry Ford 

"In business by the time you realise you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're

running scared all the time, you're gone."

- Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft

“The best way to think out of the box is not to create the box in the first place”

- Martin Cooper

 

“Superb execution is not just about doing the right things. It is about doing the right things faster,

better, more often, and more productively than your competitors do. ”

- Louis V. Gerstner

 

"Orville Wright didn’t have a pilot's license. Don't ever be afraid to bend or break the rules." 

- Richard Tait

 

“Great companies cannot be built on processes alone. But believe me, if your company has

antiquated, disconnected, slow-moving processes—particularly those that drive success in your industry

—you will end up a loser.”

- Louis V. Gerstner

 

“When you innovate you have to be prepared for everyone to tell you are nuts"

- Larry Eillison

“You can never solve a problem on the same intellectual level at which it was created. Resolving

to understand the process itself could be the best decision of all .”

- Albert Einstein

Reengineering is like starting a fire on your head and putting it out with a hammer”

- IBM Executive

“Best opportunities are visible but not seen”

 

- Peter Drucker

“There is nothing quite so useless as doing something well that need not have been done

at all.”

- Abe Lincoln

“We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company”

- Apple Inc

“Top performers build a system not just a structure.”

- Bain & Company

“Luck is what happens

when preparation meets opportunity.”

- Seneca, Roman Philosopher 

“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but

how to get old ones out.”

- Dee Hock

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

- Japanese Proverb

“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout,

processes and procedures.”

- Tom Peters

 

“Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them

spiritually drunken.”

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping

out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.”

- Marcus Buckingham

“To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people

and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.”

- Brene Brown

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their

ingenuity."

- General George Smith Patton, Jr.

"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that

leads to collective organizational success."

- Stephen Covey

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from

meddling with them while they do it."

- Theodore Roosevelt