W. Edwards Deming Quotes

Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.

You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.

And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.

You need lucky breaks to be successful.

You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.

A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.

I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

Immigration keeps this country young, it keeps it dynamic, we have entrepreneurs and strivers who come here and are willing to take risks, and that's part of the reason why America historically has been successful.

Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.

You cannot manage a decision you haven't made.

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

Don't settle for something that's not great. Don't feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.

You need to feel as good as you can before you start a workout. So what you wear to the gym is important.

Being a good private equity investor is more complicated than it seems. I would say that there are a few characteristics that are important. If you look at the skill set that you need to ultimately be a successful private equity investor, at least at the senior level, you have to be, in this business, a good investor. You have to be able to help companies perform and you have to have judgment around exiting investments. If you look at the skill sets there, they include some things you can teach and some that you can't.

I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.

No successful company has had ever been the product of just one person.

I do not know of any divine commands. I do know of most important human ones. I do not know the needs of a god or of another world. . . . I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one. I do know that the needs of humanity and this world are infinite unending constant and immediate. They will take all our time our strength our love and our thoughts; and our work here will be only then begun.

Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.

I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.

What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful