Top 30 Quotes About Kaizen: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Kaizen

#1. 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

#2. When kaizen events are designed with the purpose of only improving processes or driving financial savings but not challenging people to develop their skills, kaizen becomes noninfectious.

Jon Miller

#3. All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction.

Masaaki Imai

#4. The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.

Masaaki Imai

#5. Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time

Masaaki Imai

#6. 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

#7. One of the most powerful ways to "program" your brain is the kaizen technique of asking small questions.

Robert Maurer

#8. Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement.

Robert D. Maurer

#9. You can't do kaizen just once or twice and expect immediate results. You have to be in it for the long haul.

Masaaki Imai

#10. Much of this waste reduction comes from Lean's goal of a "kaizen" culture. Kaizen is a state of continuous improvement where people naturally look for ways to improve poorly performing practices.

Jim Benson

#11. Never be so afraid of making mistakes that you stop taking actions.
~ Kaizen Quote

Kirtida Gautam

#12. Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change.

Robert D. Maurer

#13. Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.

Masaaki Imai

#14. The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

Masaaki Imai

#15. Sometimes the best kaizen is no kaizen at all.

Jon Miller

#16. Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business.

Karen Martin

#17. I have seen the Future, because there is Nothing new under the Sun

Kaizen Kobe

#18. The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.

Shigeo Shingo

#19. The most important talent to have is the ability to cooperate with others. It is the foundation on which a great village is built and it only cost a smile or a kind word.

Kaizen Kobe