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.

The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements…But what is important is having all the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner, not in spurts.

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.

Ask 'why' five times about every matter.

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

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