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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.


W. Edwards Deming

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W. EDWRDS DEMING We have said for the last couple of weeks that we have seen the enemy starting to attack soft target...
MARK KIMMITT If we're confronted with targets on the ground in Canada, we're going to do what we have to do.
JACK HOOPER I have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you hav...
DILIP SHANGHVI We do what needs to be done to achieve our earnings targets, ... Only successful businesses can secu...
KLAUS KLEINFELD We have five targets out there. Anyone can step it up. We can't do it without teamwork. We all went ...
ASHLEIGH TONDO Do we expect it to have the highest test scores in the state? That would be unlikely, ... But we cer...
ELLIOT KRIEGER If this happens, it will greatly increase our expected targets.
AILTON NASCIMENTO It's a novel idea. Where it's unique is that if directors don't meet internally based targets, they ...
CHARLES ELSON They're on a constant reconnaissance mission; their task is to find targets such as ballistic missil...
ROBERT HILL They're on a constant reconnaissance mission; their task is to find targets such as ballistic missil...
ROBERT HILL If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch ...
KOFI ANNAN This is a paranoid regime. Even if the development of the Caucasus airfields … even if it weren't ...
KENNETH POLLACK The cost of the expansion is higher than we expected, but diamond prices and demand have been buoyan...
ATUL LELE They all have goals and everybody wants to make their targets for the week.
ROBERT COLEMAN Even if it failed to reach the targets 20 or 30 years from now, the coal industry would still make a...
COLIN BUTLER While we are pleased with meeting our earnings targets for the quarter, we are even more pleased wit...
DANIEL P. BURNHAM I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Last year, oil prices were really high so there was no problem meeting targets.
JOYDEEP MUKHERJI It's always a percentage based on a target system. You have plant targets, department targets and pe...
BUNNY RICHARDSON That's the attraction of these targets. Everybody has to use them to get to work on a daily basis, e...
BRUCE HOFFMAN For the most part, we breach and assault targets that would be fatal for riflemen to attack. We have...
STEVEN PHILLIPS It's the wee, quiet families that are suffering, they're the targets, they're the easy targets - the...
KATHLEEN MARSHALL We've got more work to do there. In order to meet our targets for 2010, it's going to run us about $...
EMMETT HANGER Corporate commitments of hard assets, capital, employees, and managers fall short of what is needed ...
JIM HEMERLING The last thing we want to do is hit civilian targets, ... genocide.
RICHARD MYERS The entire war on drugs disproportionately targets poor people and people of color.
ETHAN NADELMANN Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the rea...
HERACLITUS “Always focus on your goals, If you want to align your progress with the yardstick for desired tar...
ABDUL SALAM Our English learners and Hispanic students, they did not meet their targets, so that's an area where...
ANTONIO JIMENEZ They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate ...
WARD CHURCHILL The losers, if we do not re-enact terrorism risk insurance, are people who want to build in those ci...
BARNEY FRANK We do what needs to be done to achieve our earnings targets,
KLAUS KLEINFELD A targets and timetables approach will not work for us.
HARLAN WATSON In addition, on the issue of grade compression, employees who meet or exceed their performance targe...
CHARLOTTE MOKOENA Cost-reduction targets sound good on paper but achieving many of them will require UAW cooperation.
JONATHAN STEINMETZ Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER By making Laws that targets lifting people from poverty we will make a difference in the lives of ou...
SOTONYE ANGA A lot of our young people are targets for adults who are exploiting them, and they see any action by...
DWAYNE BASKERVILLE we're concerned about targets beyond these and are working to get more information about them.
TOM RIDGE By setting binding limits, the bill will make the governor's targets real.
DEVRA WANG The guys know they are targets this year. The challenges are there, but this team has the mental tou...
ED GAUSS As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted re...
BARTON GELLMAN Our retention rate is above the goal. We want to keep as many of the people there as we can. We'd li...
A.G. LAFLEY There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there rela...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER The Supreme Court of the nation has noticed that when you're trying to protect people who have been ...
BECKY STEELE The fundamentals for big pharmaceutical firms are fine. Cash is fine to support growth, and earnings...
DAVID SAKS Leaders of the enemy should know that they personally are targets.
ISLAMIC JIHAD Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI Transitions are a time of testing, and both sides will have something to prove -- the NATO forces to...
JOANNA NATHAN Spirit and Opportunity are approaching targets that a year ago seemed well out of reach. Their succe...
DOUG MCCUISTION Your targets empower you as they allow yourself to bring out the best within you.
DEEPAK BURFIWALA I think with these projections the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] will be in a good po...
ALISON MARQUISS The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn...
PETER SCHIFF The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully
EPICURUS The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
EPICURUS Stocks of apparent targets like Washington Mutual are going up. That's what the market's telling us:...
JAMELAH LEDDY If the targets continue to be specific industries such as financial firms and airlines, it's not cle...
DORSEY FARR If the requests continue, we will continue to meet them. Provinces will probably also step up to the...
ANNE MCLELLAN Targets don't fight crime; they hinder the fight against crime.
THERESA MAY If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relat...
CRAIG GROESCHEL We do not see any meaningful improvement in IT spending, and we are not counting on a strong holiday...
CARLY FIORINA If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if y...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD There is one thing that, more than any other, throws people absolutely off their balance — the tho...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possib...
SOLOMON ORTIZ I don't like my nipples showing. They look like targets.
SIENNA GUILLORY These are stretch targets - they are not easy for us.
ROBERT TOWNSEND Fifty caliber sniper rifles were designed as battlefield rifles to destroy aircraft, puncture armor,...
THOM MANNARD Mori will naturally continue to serve as premier when we win seats beyond these targets.
HIROMU NONAKA We have no layoff targets and no company-wide numbers. We never announce overall layoffs because we ...
GARY SHEFFER It would have triggered an immediate attempt to gather every piece of information we could about the...
HARRY SAMIT If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first ...
ALEXANDER HAIG The collection, analysis and dissemination requirements mean that we are not collecting as much for ...
BOB KERREY We don't predict where the attacks will happen, but we suggest the kinds of targets.
ANDREW COBURN We are the immediate targets. They are going to take away our passports. I'm sure of that.
PAUL THEMBA NYATHI What are the targets at Arsenal? Are they to be a successful business or a successful team?
DAVID SEAMAN With the hurricane and with everything we haven't had a time that we could meet together, but we're ...
CLIFF SMITH If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
ROBERT JORDAN welcomes the U.S. decision to strike targets of terrorists in Sudan and Afghanistan.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU Everyone has a gift.
It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We n...
NONG DUC MANH The SEC is launching more investigations into more big companies than ever before, ... The list of t...
ARTHUR LEVITT Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Out of every 100 men, 10 shouldn't be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, an...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS This missile, with the capacity of evading radar, can attack several targets simultaneously.
HOSSEIN SALAMI It's interesting to me that apparently distasteful comments from the Right against weak targets ...
STEWART LEE It is clear that the camps are targets of the occupation forces.
SAID SIAM The project targets in-school and out-of-school youth.
DR MUKENDI KAEMBE We are hitting targets similar to those hit yesterday,
RICHARD MYERS In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's very fast. You turn on a G protein, and it immediately targets the mechanism to modify release.
SIMON ALFORD We don't demonize our targets. They're individuals. They have families. Although what happened in Mu...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant peopl...
WILLIAM SAROYAN From a marketing standpoint that means we have the opportunity to appeal to a wide audience and diff...
CAROLYN BIVENS I think we'll continue to see them (be targets), ... There's so many of them, and they're open at th...
GREG COLLINS These are people who are seen to be relatively powerless, invisible, easy targets for hate and . . ....
LELIA DEANDRADE The reason they have these jobs is because other people don't want to do the jobs they do.
ROBERTO FLORES The targets included terrorist training camps, military airfields, and air defenses,
GEOFFREY HOON From our interrogation, it was revealed that Bangalore and Hyderabad were among the top targets.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING There must be consistency in direction.
W. EDWARDS DEMING You can not define being exactly on time.
W. EDWARDS DEMING It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING The customer is the most important part of the production line.
W. EDWARDS DEMING We do not know what quality is.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING Off we go to the . . . Milky Way!
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BARBARA DEMING There should be no censorship of mail.
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BARBARA DEMING We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in b...
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BARBARA DEMING People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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BARBARA DEMING We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whos...
BARBARA DEMING Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
BARBARA DEMING Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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BARBARA DEMING Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
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BARBARA DEMING After the revolution, when one person injures another, society would concern itself most immediately...
BARBARA DEMING After the revolution, surely the only good reason for institutions that could still be called prison...
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BARBARA DEMING ...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. Bu...
BARBARA DEMING A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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BARBARA DEMING They did a really good job.
BRIAN DEMING We were short some girls. If we had them, it might have been very close.
BRIAN DEMING They really did an impressive job.
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BRIAN DEMING When you have that many personnel bests, it's a huge accomplishment for any coach and team.
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BRIAN DEMING Last year we didn't have any points, so to get on the point scale is a big deal.
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BRIAN DEMING We have tried to keep up a good standard, but it's been hard.
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ADAM DEMING We expect to get back to 125,000 barrels per day quickly.
CLAIBORNE DEMING Just put two people in a car instead of one.
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CLAIBORNE DEMING The program has helped our local farmers develop unique and beneficial products.
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ADRIAN EDWARDS a healthy and strong media is within reach.
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TRYON EDWARDS To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards.
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TRYON EDWARDS Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
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TRYON EDWARDS Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
TRYON EDWARDS Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it ...
TRYON EDWARDS To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
TRYON EDWARDS Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide charac...
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