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

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.

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

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.

And in the end, she left a scarand I knew that washow she wanted tobe remembered.She wanted to leaveher mark in theworldwithout gettingher heart tooattached to it.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

No matter how bitter the truth is, the beauty is that it liberates.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

Spirit, like body, needs to be trained. So I think it's necessary to make your spirit stronger. And for he who believes, anything is possible.

Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.

AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.