Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

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

Without standards, there can be no improvement.

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'.

I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become a modern industrial nation. That is why I had no problem with sharing it with other Japanese companies, even my biggest competitors.

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.

If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You need to change how you look at things.