Taiichi Ohno Quotes

#1. 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.

Taiichi Ohno

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

Taiichi Ohno

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

Taiichi Ohno

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

Taiichi Ohno

#5. It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.

Taiichi Ohno

#6. The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

Anton Chekhov

#7. For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.

Jane Leavy

#8. A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

Rose Macaulay

#9. My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

Taiichi Ohno

#10. If one is not a meditator, howsoever good one is it is all useless.

Osho

#11. Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.

Taiichi Ohno

#12. I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Famke Janssen

#13. Kitten?"
"Yeah?"
His eyes were beautiful when they met mine, luminous and clear, and a long moment stretched out between us. "I love you.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#14. No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble

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#15. Without standards, there can be no improvement.

Taiichi Ohno

#16. One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

Charles Brenton Huggins

#17. I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#18. 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.

Taiichi Ohno

#19. Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

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#20. It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

Anish Kapoor

#21. You know what they say about big hitters ... the woods are full of them.

Jimmy Demaret

#22. 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.

Taiichi Ohno

#23. Dear Jean, I have seen a deer. I have petted a pony. I helped plant a garden. I have smelled earth and felt it in my hands. You watched the sun rise. These things are worth the struggle to live outside.

Anne Bishop

#24. The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements ... But what is important is having all the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner, not in spurts.

Taiichi Ohno

#25. Ask 'why' five times about every matter.

Taiichi Ohno

#26. 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.

Taiichi Ohno

#27. Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

Taiichi Ohno

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

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#29. When you are out observing on the gemba, do something to help them. If you do, people will come to expect that you can help them and will look forward to seeing you again on the gemba.

Taiichi Ohno

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

Taiichi Ohno

#31. No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training.

Taiichi Ohno

#32. Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

Taiichi Ohno