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.

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

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

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

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 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.

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