The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.

There are four purposes of improvement: easier, better, faster, and cheaper. These four goals appear in the order of priority.

Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.

A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.

The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they were assumed not to exist.

Lean is a way of thinking- not a list of things to do

Unless you change direction, you will end up where you are headed.

It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement.

Those who are not dissatisfied will never make any progress

When you buy bananas all you want is the fruit not the skin, but you have to pay for the skin also. It is a waste. And you the customer should not have to pay for the waste.

We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System.

To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

I'm just one example of thousands of transgender veterans and people who are actively serving today.

There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.

If you don't look for Trouble, how can you know it's there?

You can't wake up looking for the recession.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.