The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.

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.

The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around

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

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

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.

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen