Taiichi Ohno Kaizen Quotes & Sayings

If you are going to do kaizen continuouslyyou've got to assume that things are a mess. Too many people just assume that things are all right the way they are. Aren't you guys convinced that the way you're doing things is the right way? That's no way to get anything done. Kaizen is about changing the way things are. If you assume that things are all right the way they are, you can't do kaizen. So change something! — Taiichi Ohno

That's how my brain felt. Like I was shoving odd puzzle pieces together. — Jennifer Brown

A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it. — Ovid

you'd think being turn into a monster would have some perks - some monstrous super powers like super spidey senses or cool fangs - at least something more than a skin condition and eating disorder. — E.V. Iverson

All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable
to hard work. — Brian Tracy

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Kaizen should be done when times are good or when the company is profitable, since your efforts to streamline and make improvements when the company is poor are limited to reduction in staff. Even if you try to go lean and cut out the fat to improve business performance, when your business is in a very difficult position financially there is no fat to be cut. If you are cutting out muscle, which you need, then you cannot say that your efforts to become lean are succeeding.The most important thing about doing kaizen is to do kaizen when times are good, the economy is strong, and the company is profitable — Taiichi Ohno

War is a contagion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

But decades of research on public opinion have led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of policy preferences. — Jonathan Haidt