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.

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

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.

Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.

Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

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.

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