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.

And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

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'.

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

Ask 'why' five times about every matter.