No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble

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

God is helpless in our area of ignorance.

Your life is not a countdown to your death, but a stepping stone for the lives that will live after you. Squander today, and you will find yourself useless tomorrow.

The truth is I love you but you reject my love. You would rather be right than loved.

It’s one thing to go into a fight knowing you’ll probably lose. Quite another to be told that to win, you must offer up your throat to be slit.

There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.

If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity.

The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.

The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.