Strategies for Industrial Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering

Quoted in Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence:

You don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time.

—Vince Lombardi

The Voyage of Life: Youth by Thomas Cole, 1840

Quoted in chapter 3 of The Science of Success:

Columbus cherished a vision of another world, and he discovered it; Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe, and he revealed it; Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it.

—James Allen

Quoted in chapter 8 of The Science of Success:

Doctors of [the 15th century] kept their secrets locked in languages their patients could not read. To attack this citadel demanded a willingness to defy the canons of respectability, to uproot oneself from the university community and from the guild. Such a venture required as much passion as knowledge, and more daring than prudence. To open the way, a man needed the knowledge of a professional and yet not be committed to the profession. He should be in the physician’s world but not of it.

—Daniel Boorstin

Desolation by Thomas Cole, 1836

Quoted in chapter 3 of The Science of Success:

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

—Proverbs 29:18

Standardization is often seen as a rival to innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Henry Ford would not agree with that assessment.

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

—Henry Ford, Today and Tomorrow