Quotes About Lean Manufacturing

#1. Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.

Mark Parker

#2. As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

Kalup Linzy

#3. However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#4. Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. I suppose the cave-woman sometimes felt rather relieved when everything was settled for her with a club, but I'm sure the caveman must have had a hard time ridding himself of the thought that he had behaved like a cad and taken a mean advantage.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata, too, is embracing new forms of manufacture in order to revolutionise the price to meet the consumer needs of a poor, developing country.

Martin Jacques

#7. Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

Dustin Hoffman

#8. The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work.

William E. Conway Jr.

#9. While thinking is a practical necessity, the failure to recognize thoughts as thoughts, moment after moment, is what gives each of us the feeling that we call "I," and this is the string upon which all our states of suffering and dissatisfaction are strung.

Sam Harris

#10. Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.

Pete Wentz

#11. With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.

John Steinbeck

#12. My co-founder and great friend Glynnis MacNicol is only a chat box away and gives me the support (and tough love!) needed to remember who I am and what I'm worth. You can't be your own cheerleader all of the time. Be there to support your friends and let them support you.

Rachel Sklar

#13. Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.

W. Edwards Deming

#14. Everyone thinks everything's a waste of time when it's not the thing that leads to an answer.

Laura Lippman

#15. It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all.

Lauren Oliver

#16. Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

Ellen Hopkins

#17. I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

Andie MacDowell

#18. Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.

Eric Ries