Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Because of my medical and ideological training I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied if the stuff is getting stale if the shelf isn't right or if the offerings aren't right it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather altogether incalculable.

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs so we're learning from them.

Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer' anything else is waste.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world considering us as a civilized and a Christian country that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

People usually think according to their inclinations speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions but generally act according to custom.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.