Taiichi Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally.

John Sherman Cooper

#3. 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

#4. You are the only one responsible for your own wants.

Isaac Asimov

#5. 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

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

Taiichi Ohno

#7. 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

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

Taiichi Ohno

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

Taiichi Ohno

#10. Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Robert Lanza

#11. We will be able to travel backward or forward in time and see what has been and what is going to be, as well as experience the glorious wonderful present! We will see, hear, feel and experience the very events of the past, just as they happened.

David Berg

#12. I've had quite enough danger for a while I think. I might have some more when I'm thirteen, but definitely not before then ...

Joshua Donellan

#13. Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

Douglas Coupland

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

Taiichi Ohno

#15. The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

J. Michael Bishop

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

Taiichi Ohno

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

Taiichi Ohno

#18. Anyone who really wants to coach and have a lot of impact on people's lives, high school's the way to go. To be honest with you, of all the jobs I've ever had, the one I really, truly enjoyed the most was teaching and coaching in high school. It just doesn't pay as well.

Charlie Weis

#19. Life is too short to complicate it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Taiichi Ohno

#21. We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across the galaxy, sprinkled into gas clouds that then collapsed and formed stars and planets and life.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Taiichi Ohno

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

Taiichi Ohno

#24. 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

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

Taiichi Ohno

#26. The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ.

Bernard Lazare

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

Taiichi Ohno

#28. 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

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

Taiichi Ohno

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

Taiichi Ohno

#31. The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

Bertrand Delanoe

#32. I don't get into the gun stuff. Some guys have guns who go hunting. Where do we stop (the gun control) at? I'm not a hunter, but we can't say people can't have guns.

Charles Barkley

#33. Good people turn to love, courage and kindness in times of crisis, not hate, fear and cruelty.

Laurence Overmire

#34. I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

Lukas Haas

#35. 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

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

Taiichi Ohno