And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'.

Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

Without standards, there can be no improvement.

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.

The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.

Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

Nothing good seems easy. That is how life shapes our perception.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.

...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.