Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer; anything else is waste. — Eric Ries
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. — Tom Peters
And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes. — Taiichi Ohno
Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money. — Masaaki Imai
All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction. — Masaaki Imai
Manufacturing all over the world has the benefit of efficiency. — Jensen Huang
The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Companies of One question their systems, processes, and structure to become more efficient. — Paul Jarvis
The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company. — Masaaki Imai
As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools. — Kaoru Ishikawa
Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process. — W. Edwards Deming
To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist. — William McDonough
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance. — J. R. D. Tata
Good design means as little design as possible. — Dieter Rams
Leaning In Quotes
Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. — Dwight L. Moody
How can you know when you are trusting in man rather than in God? If you fall apart when someone else lets you down, or if the actions of others affect your walk with God, then you know you are leaning on the arm of flesh! — David Wilkerson
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul. — Anthony of Padua
The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize. — Shigeo Shingo
Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well. — Joni Eareckson Tada
We still wading in the water...
Cocaine, blunts, marinating in the water.
Lean and took a puff, and then she gave it to my father,
Used to take the bullets out so I could play with the revolver.
Satan serenading ever since I was a toddler,
Tell 'em talk is cheap...niggas living for the dollar. — Vince Staples
The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners. — Bernard Law Montgomery
Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in. — Ursula Burns
May I always hear that you are following the guidance of that blessed Spirit that will lead you into all truth, leaning on that Almighty arm that has been extended to deliver you, trusting only in the only Savior, and going on in your way to Him rejoicing. — Francis Scott Key
Lean Quotes
I don't give a damn how you feel about me, I sip lean pure codeine and I don't give a damn what you say about me. — Gucci Mane
Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously. — Francis of Assisi
All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes. — Taiichi Ohno
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'. — Taiichi Ohno
Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey. — Anthony of Padua
Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before. — Shigeo Shingo
I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. — Shane Koyczan
Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced. — Taiichi Ohno
There are some fringe factions of the alt-right that have demonstrated genuinely racist, anti-Semitic, and prejudiced leanings. They clearly don't want a Jewish, homosexual, black-d - - supremacist as a spokesman. And I don't want to be associated with them, either. — Milo Yiannopoulos
The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. — J. I. Packer
Manufacturing Quotes
I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground. — Madam C. J. Walker
It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain. — Taiichi Ohno
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo
It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported — David Ricardo
We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System. — Shigeo Shingo
As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there. — Epictetus
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick). — Robert Hooke
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. — Charles Babbage
To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it. One competitive advantage I had when I ventured into manufacturing was my brand “Dangote,” which I diligently built in the course of my trading commodities. — Aliko Dangote
Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed! — Marine Le Pen
Leaning Back Quotes
You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick. — David Gilmour
Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony. — Sherman Alexie
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world. — Edwin Markham
To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it. — Scott Weiland
The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle. — Alfred Stieglitz
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in. — Sheryl Sandberg
The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. — Mark Twain
If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache — N. C. Wyeth
I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. "Surprise attack," I said. Sam leaned down and kissed me back, his mouth lingering on mine, teeth grazing my lower lip, making me shiver. "Surprise attack back." "Sneaky," I said, my voice breathier than I intended. — Maggie Stiefvater
[Paul McCartney] never, at the time, was going back to leaning back on the roots of his old band. He always built upon where he was, which was in London. And he didn't overuse synthesizers. He used them just enough. It's such a cool sound. — Fred Armisen
The world we have created is a product of our thinking. — Albert Einstein
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates
Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain. — Mark Parker
You can't do kaizen just once or twice and expect immediate results. You have to be in it for the long haul. — Masaaki Imai
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality — Harold Geneen
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation. — Andy Grove
Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty. — Eric Ries
Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it. — W. Edwards Deming
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. — Henry Ford
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material. — Henry Ford
I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough. — Felix Frankfurter
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service. — Henry Ford
There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert. — Robert Breault
The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work. — William E. Conway, Jr.
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. — Shigeo Shingo
Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? 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’ — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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