Kaizen Quotes - Page 2

• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

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• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Buddhist, Attitude

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• If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

  William Feather

  Success, Perseverance, Hard Work

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Essays "Circles" (1841)

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• In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Clear Goals, Loyal, Goals And Life

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• All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play.

  Robert D. Maurer

  Change, Mean, Play

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• Sometimes the best kaizen is no kaizen at all.

  Jon Miller

  Sometimes

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• Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Design Process, Poor Quality

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• Many good American companies have respect for individuals, and practice Kaizen and other TPS {Toyota Production System} tools. But what is important is having all of the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner–not in spurts–in a concrete way on the shop floor.

  Fujio Cho

  Practice, Important, Together

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• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Change, Meaningful, Top Management

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• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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• As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement.

  Robert D. Maurer

  Optimistic, Loss, Clear Goals

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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• Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat?  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’

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Creativity, Thinking, Sweat

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• He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Greatness, Heaven

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

  Ernest Bramah

  Single Mom, Years, May

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• Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Useless Stuff, Time Management

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

  William Edward Hickson

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Try and Try Again". Poem by William Edward Hickson,

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• To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

  Nelson Bunker Hunt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If at first you don't succeed, try management.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Perseverance, Persistence

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