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

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.

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

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

When you are out observing on the gemba, do something to help them. If you do, people will come to expect that you can help them and will look forward to seeing you again on the gemba.

If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

If you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.

Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.

The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.