Chuck Grassley Quotes

Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

It is in Toyota's DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances and because they don't have the right execution.

And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

Back to Microsoft days, I'm always looking for, 'OK, that's great, but what can go wrong?'

The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis.

Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

I set out to understand how we got it so wrong and what can we learn from the fact that we did.

If you make a mistake, classify it. Then you don’t have to admit the mistake.

At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes.

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

When I make a mistake once, it's usually not going to happen again.