“Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.”
Philip B. Crosby (1926–2001) Quality guru
Philip B. Crosby (1995), Reflections on Quality.
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way.”
There are no records of Roosevelt having made such a statement, and this is most likely a misquotation of the widely reported comment he made in a speech at the Citadel (23 October 1935):
: Yes, we are on our way back — not just by pure chance, my friends, not just by a turn of the wheel, of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we are planning it that way. Don't let anybody tell you differently.
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Source: Quality Is Free, 1977, p. 22
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“… if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.”
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