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Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood. — Tom DeMarco

Overworked managers are doing things they shouldn't be doing. — Tom DeMarco

I never liked living in Montreal. And I don't really like the music scene there. It was never my cup of tea, and I never felt like I ever fit in. — Mac DeMarco

practice living in faith that all is well, all is always well. — Frank DeMarco

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day. — Tom DeMarco

I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job. — Mac DeMarco

The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional. — Tom DeMarco

Fake it until you make it. — J.M. Darhower

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it. — Tom DeMarco

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it. — Mac DeMarco

It's possible to make an organization more efficient without making it better. That's what happens when you drive out slack. — Tom DeMarco

Rituals help us change modes. — Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Learning is limited by an organization's ability to keep its people. — Tom DeMarco

in the best organizations, the short term is not the only thing that matters. What matters more is being best. And that's a long-term concept. — Tom DeMarco

Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life. — Mac DeMarco

A policy of "Quality - If Time Permits" will assure that no quality at all sneaks into the product. Hewlett-Packard — Tom DeMarco

I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills. — Mac DeMarco

The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value. — Tom DeMarco

What chaos is left in modern society is a precious commodity. — Tom DeMarco

I'm paraphrasing, but yeah, a friend out of the Chicago organization did." "Chicago? You tried planting your seed in the DeMarco family? — J.M. Darhower

Work gets done on the basis of its urgency alone. — Tom DeMarco

You can't control what you can't measure — Tom DeMarco

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment. — Tom DeMarco

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back. — Tom DeMarco

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go. — Mac DeMarco

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners. — Tom DeMarco

A disturbing possibility is that overtime is not so much a means to increase the quantity of work time as to improve its average quality. — Tom DeMarco

Ownership of the standard should be in the hands of those who do the work. — Tom DeMarco

I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change. — Mac DeMarco

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me. — Mac DeMarco

I don't have that much experience in the studio, but I'm always really uncomfortable when I'm there. You're on the clock and it costs a lot of money. — Mac DeMarco

IBM actually followed the recommendations and built a workplace where people can work. (We predict this company will go far.) — Tom DeMarco

Tony," DeMarco said, and Benedetto slowly opened his eyes. — Mike Lawson

I've been trying to take the high road, you know, the Capone way ... — J.M. Darhower

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy. — Mac DeMarco

what matters is helping all parties understand that the success of the individual is tied irrevocably to the success of the whole. — Tom DeMarco

The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work. — Tom DeMarco

I hate living in a really small apartment, living in a shoebox, not being able to play the drums, not having space. It sucks. — Mac DeMarco

Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it. — Tom DeMarco

Scale creates millionaires. Magnitude creates millionaires. Scale and magnitude creates billionaires. — M.J. DeMarco

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack. — Tom DeMarco

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about. — Tom DeMarco

I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music. — Mac DeMarco

(M)ediocre, (O)bedient, (D)ependent, (E)ntertained, and (L)ifeless and — MJ DeMarco

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it. — Tom DeMarco

I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap. — Mac DeMarco

Good night, my hummingbird," Carmine whispered. "I'll keep you in my dreams. — J.M. Darhower

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success. — Tom DeMarco

I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good. — Mac DeMarco

A single person acting alone is not likely to effect any meaningful change. — Tom DeMarco

I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then? — Bob DeMarco

If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change. — Tom DeMarco

When stress is the problem, slack is the solution. — Tom DeMarco

Internal competition has the direct effect of making coaching difficult or impossible. — Tom DeMarco

Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime. — MJ DeMarco

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed. — Tom DeMarco

I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows? — Mac DeMarco

People who feel untrusted have little inclination to bond together into a cooperative team. — Tom DeMarco

He was Carmine Marcello DeMarco ... and even broken, he was beautiful. — J.M. Darhower

we don't work overtime so much to get the work done on time as to shield ourselves from blame when the work inevitably doesn't get done on time. — Tom DeMarco

Change creates millionaires. Those who observe and take advantage of change will be the new millionaires and billionaires. — M.J. DeMarco

consensus fallacy - the idea that if many people believe something, some position, or some ideology, it must be true. Consensus — MJ DeMarco

Oggi uccidiamo, domani moriremo, he said, his gloved hand making the sign of the cross. Today we kill, tomorrow we die. — J.M. Darhower

Whether you call it a "team" or an "ensemble" or a "harmonious work group" is not what matters; — Tom DeMarco

Perfectionist? That's not something I am. — Mac DeMarco

Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility. — Mac DeMarco

It's so crazy with the Internet and being able to play shows to people who are actually interested in you. I feel so lucky when that happens. — Mac DeMarco