Best Kaizen Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Psychologically speaking, trying to institute massive change all at once is quite difficult for us to process. But, small changes done in a sustainable way are much more easily absorbed.”

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Author:Steve M. Beauchamp

“I am the story teller, charged with the secrets of this world and beyond. I am the calm in the storm, the quiet in the quake and the stillness in the dark. I am the old lady with the pot of water when you are dying of thirst. I am the sapling after the forest fire and the child who survives after pestilence. For those who will listen, hear you the first secret. Love is the sea in which all of nature exists and the greatest love of all is that which is spilled for another.”

Storyteller Greatest Love Kaizen

Author:Kaizen Kobe

“An effective method often deceives us into thinking that it is the only effective one, or the most effective.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“An improvement is not always worth it.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.”

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Book:The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

Source: The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

“If you want engagement, you must engage.”

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Book:The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

Source: The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

“Chaos is the enemy of any organization the strives to be outstanding.”

Continuous Improvement Value Stream Mapping Toyota Kaizen Lean Process Improvement Six Sigma Process Design Bpr Reengineering

Book:The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

Source: The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

“Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business.”

Continuous Improvement Value Stream Mapping Toyota Kaizen Lean Process Improvement Six Sigma Process Design Bpr Reengineering

Book:The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

Source: The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”

“Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.”

“If at first you don't succeed, try management.”

“All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction.”

Two Effort Management Satisfaction Customers Customer Satisfaction Kaizen

Author:Masaaki Imai

“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.”

Way Philosophy Home Life Is Social Deserve Assuming Social Life Home Life Working Life Kaizen

Author:Masaaki Imai

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.”

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.”

“To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.”

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Author:Nelson Bunker Hunt

“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”

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Author:Masaaki Imai

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.”

“He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'”

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Book:The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.”

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Author:Michael Eisner

“All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play.”

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Author:Robert D. Maurer

“Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement.”

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Author:Robert D. Maurer

“Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change.”

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Author:Robert D. Maurer

“As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement.”

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Author:Robert D. Maurer

“A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.”

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Author:Ernest Bramah

“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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Masaaki Imai

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.”

“Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to Toyota to ‘work’ they go there to ‘think’”

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Author:Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“Sometimes the best kaizen is no kaizen at all.”

Sometimes Kaizen

Author:Jon Miller

“The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.”

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Author:Shigeo Shingo

“Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen”

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Author:Taiichi Ohno

“Many good American companies have respect for individuals, and practice Kaizen and other TPS {Toyota Production System} tools. But what is important is having all of the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner–not in spurts–in a concrete way on the shop floor.”

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Author:Fujio Cho

“Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.”

Investing Something New Improving Kaizen Never Stop Improving

Author:Bob Parsons

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”

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Author:W. Edwards Deming

“In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.”

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Author:Mary Kay Ash

“Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.”

Way Remember Goal Results Huge Concepts Advantage Investing Improvement Something New Improving Kaizen Never Stop Improving

Author:Bob Parsons

“Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.”

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

“Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.”

Mean Spending Improvement Ongoing Involving Kaizen Lean Manufacturing

Author:Masaaki Imai

“To make the quickest progress, you don't have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps-and keep on taking them. In Japan, they call this approach kaizen, which literally translates as 'continual improvement.' Using kaizen, great and lasting success is achieved through small, consistent steps. It turns out that slow and steady is the best way to overcome your resistance to change.”

“There is no substitute for hard work.”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

“The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'.”

People Thinking Hard Results Creativity Style Limits Manufacturing Toyota Kaizen Lean Manufacturing

Author:Taiichi Ohno

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