Masaaki Imai Kaizen Quotes & Sayings

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

Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively. — David Liss

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army. — Robert E.Lee

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

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

All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction. — Masaaki Imai

Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money. — Masaaki Imai

A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.
Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another. — Luther Burbank

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. — Andy Andrews

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

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. — Jodi Picoult