Toyoda Quotes & Sayings

The hundreds of thousands of men and women at Toyota operations worldwide - including the 172,000 team members and dealers in North America - are among the best in the auto industry. — Akio Toyoda

After I joined Toyota, there was a period when I drove more than 200 cars in one year - different types, other companies' cars. I want to be able to tell what distinguishes one car from the next. — Akio Toyoda

It is in Toyota's DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated. — Akio Toyoda

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves. — Cynthia Voigt

( ... ) We're not here to witness anything. We're witch-hunters. — Chuck Palahniuk

the person who has arrived at a habitual state of unconditional love will find anything less to be unacceptable — David Hawkins

I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman. — Akio Toyoda

She stood with flaccid breasts, somehow still full of herself. — Shannon Bradley-Colleary

I am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name. — Akio Toyoda

Whether or not storms come, we can not choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can. — Max Lucado

For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again. — Akio Toyoda

Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken. — Akio Toyoda

Toyota would be credited for its just-in-time theory of manufacturing, in which parts arrived from suppliers just in time to be part of the final assembly. But in any real sense that process began at the Rouge. Toasting Philip Caldwell, the head of Ford who in 1982 was visiting Japan, Eiji Toyoda, of the Toyota company, said, There is no secret to how we learned to do what we do, Mr. Caldwell. We learned it at the Rouge. — David Halberstam

Everyone says Toyota is the best company in the world, but the customer doesn't care about the world. They care if we are the best in town, or not. That's what I want to be. — Akio Toyoda

I ride many different cars. Let's say I would drive 200 different vehicles in a year, so it's rather difficult to say which car or what car I ride. I love cars. — Akio Toyoda

I do not know what will be the end of it. — Ann Rinaldi

How could a very thin woman do all the things that women needed to do: to carry children on their backs, to pound maize into flour out at the lands or the cattle post, to cart around the things of the household - the pots and pans and buckets of water? And how could a thin woman comfort a man? It would be very awkward for a man to share his bed with a person who was all angles and bone, whereas a traditionally built lady would be like an extra pillow on which a man coming home tired from his work might rest his weary head. To do all that you needed a bit of bulk, and thin people simply did not have that. — Alexander McCall Smith

People look at me and think I am an expert in the automobile industry, and I'm not. — Akio Toyoda

When consumers purchase a Toyota, they are not simply purchasing a car, truck or van. They are placing their trust in our company. — Akio Toyoda

I myself, as well as Toyota, am not perfect. I, more than anyone, wish for our customers' cars to be safe. — Akio Toyoda

Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while. — Bill Vaughan

With respect to sticking accelerator pedals, we failed to connect the dots between problems in Europe and problems in the United States because the European situation related primarily to right-hand-drive vehicles. Toyota will increase its outreach to government agencies charged with protecting the safety of motorists and passengers. — Akio Toyoda

The 'dance of love' has different themes and moods, just like every relationship has its highs and lows. Enjoy the high moments and hang-on during the downtimes. The diverse range of emotions is the experience that builds you two. Your ability to perfectly switch between these moments and make the best out of the one you find yourself per time, proves that you are not only involved in the relationship like the chicken is in the business of making eggs but also very committed to it like the pig is in the business of making bacon. — Olaotan Fawehinmi