Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. — Mark Twain
The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable. — Kaoru Ishikawa
Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before. — Shigeo Shingo
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
Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process. — W. Edwards Deming
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. — John Ousterhout
In order to improve for good, you need to solve problems at the systems level. Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves. — James Clear
Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day. — Brian Tracy
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing. — Michael Porter
Short Process Improvement Quotes
If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself. — Indra Nooyi
Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money. — Masaaki Imai
You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality. — Karl Albrecht
All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction. — Masaaki Imai
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection. — Kim Collins
Even when things are going well, there are always aspects that can be improved. — Didier Deschamps
If you can not measure it, you can not improve it. — Lord Kelvin
Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction, you must improve. — Horst Schulze
Human improvement is from within outward. — James A. Froude
Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet. — Phil Crosby
Process Improvement Image Quotes
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Continuous Process Improvement Quotes
I think that we'll continue to try to look at ourselves in the mirror and see where we can do a better job, maybe where we can improve the process. But I think the fundamentals of the process will remain the same. — Bill Belichick
The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize. — Shigeo Shingo
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. — Stephen Covey
Today I will go out with the flow of life and trust the process. I will not stress over things I can't control.
Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. — Denis Waitley
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving. — Lee H. Hamilton
The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness. — Lucas Papademos
Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.
Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process. — Blanche Lincoln
We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change. — John Sununu
Quality Improvement Quotes
Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally. — Francis Galton
Don’t hope for better. Just be better. Be something better. Be more compassionate, more resilient, more humble, more disciplined. — Mark Manson
If you want to improve you self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.
I have never doubted the importance of melody. I like melody very much, and I consider it the most important element in music, and I labour many years on the improvement of its quality in my compositions. — Sergei Prokofiev
In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability. — Bertrand Piccard
Actions that soften life's quality should be identified, irrespective of whether they meet the classic addiction definition, aiming to help people improve. — Gary Brecka
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood. — Abigail Van Buren
If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. — Malcolm Gladwell
The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures. — Charles W. Pickering
A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour. — Cedric Price
Continuous Improvement Quotes
I want to keep improving, continue to help my teammates improve, make my teammates look good. Continue bringing something new to the game, never getting completely content and always trying to get better. — Alex Morgan
...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means. — W. Edwards Deming
I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously. — Bill Gates
Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. — Robin Sharma
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
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune. — Jim Rohn
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss. — Benjamin Franklin
You must do more. The minute your mind thinks, 'Done', your instincts say, 'Next'. — Tim Grover
Relentless is about never being satisfied, always driving to be the best, and then getting even better. — Tim Grover
There’s no off-season when you’re serious about being a winner. — Tim Grover
Life is a grand struggle until you realize that you are a chemical processing plant. And once you understand how to take control of the chemical processing... and you can do virtually anything you want, you can create desire, you can stay focused, you can improve... but you really do have to put yourself in a position of adapt or die. Your body has to believe: adapt or die and then it will believe. — Tom Bilyeu
I originally started in natural bodybuilding because I was picked on a lot in high school and didn’t get much attention from girls. As I learned to love the process of lifting more and more I started becoming more interested in competing. — Layne Norton
It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made. — Masaaki Imai
Success is not a goal to reach or a final line to cross. It is a system to improve, an endless process to refine. — James Clear
We are all capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to be... So let’s hit reset. Let’s begin anew the process of stepping into that person we always wanted, and deserve, to be. — Rich Roll
Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely. — Jay Conrad Levinson
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement. Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress. — James Clear
And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it. — Jason Bateman
The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity’s relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition. — Jacque Fresco
Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach. — Seneca
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are no drugs that improve mental function, self-understanding, or human relations. Any drug that affects mental processes does so by impairing them. — Peter Breggin
Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback - about what works and what doesn't. If you don't do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve. — Jack Canfield
Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%! — Indra Nooyi
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. — Stephen Hawking
Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking. — Watts Humphrey
Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek to improve upon the knowledge entrusted to them and go further. — William Coperthwaite
To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process. — Teresa Amabile
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom. — Barry Goldwater
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence. — George Orwell
Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete with processed, junk and fast food the other six days of the week, going meatless on Mondays will still cut your carbon footprint, improve your health and reduce demand for factory-farm meat. — Mark Bittman
No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the livs of those within our circle of influence. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Truly world-class firms are always examining their business processes and continuously seeking solutions to improve in key areas, such as lead time reduction, cost cutting, exceeding customer expectations, streamlining processes, shortening time to market for new products, and managing the global operation. — Daniel Baldwin
I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any pace but fast was alien to me. To me, the idea of patience and gradual progress was a very foreign idea. I truly learned patience from this woman, and how to appreciate the smallest signs of improvement. — Tara Subkoff
The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating. — Renee Fleming
On the unhampered market there prevails an irresistible tendency to employ every factor of production for the best possible satisfaction of the most urgent needs of the consumers. If the government interfered with this process, it can only impair satisfaction; it can never improve it. — Ludwig von Mises
It's great when improv is encouraged. It's a really fun thing. It depends on who's in the movie and how their process works, as well. It takes a director who is open to that because you have a script, but then something funny could happen on set. So, to have people around you who encourage improv is really exciting. — Lily Collins
Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success. — Michael Arndt
While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass. — Fred Thompson
There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities. — Ibrahim Babangida
In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally. — Saffron Burrows
People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level. — John C. Maxwell
Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process. — Sanjay Kumar
The idea that we should check on our unreflective belief acquisition sounds great, but we need to know whether the processes of reflection which we put to work serves to improve our reliability or not. — Hilary Kornblith
Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average. — Fred Brooks
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