Six Sigma Quotes
“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it”. H. James Harrington
“Quality depends on good data. It also depends on executive leadership in using that data”. Juran Institute, Inc.
“Quality cannot be copied; there is no step-by-step cookbook that applies equally to all company situations and cultures”. Ernst & Young
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”. Albert Einstein
“I believe the leader’s ultimate job is to spread hope”. Bob Galvin (Motorola)
“The World-Class organization is continuously bathed in a stream of integrated data”. Y.S. Chang, George Labovitz, and Victor Rosansky
“Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers”. Joseph M. Juran
“The transformation to world-class quality is not possible without committed, visionary, hands-on leadership”. Steven George
“It’s better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared”. Whitney Young Jr
“It does not matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going”. Brian Tracy
“The right place and the right time is here and now”. Michelle Ustaszeski
“The more you seek security, the less of it you have, but the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security you desire”. Brian Tracy
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory”. W. Edwards Deming
“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests”. Epictetus
“Big jobs go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones”. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision”. Robbins, Anthony
“Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value”. Jim Rohn
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary”. Jim Rohn
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of”. Jim Rohn
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder”. Ralph W. Sockman
“Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them”. Albert Einstein
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”. Mahatma Gandhi
“One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent”. Epictetus