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.

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

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'.

Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

Without standards, there can be no improvement.

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

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

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

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

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

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

My maid never sweeps under the bed so I asked her to do so today. Found a pen, three pairs of shoes and the man I had lost two years ago.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.

Learn to focus on the light ahead instead of dwelling on the darkness that's already behind you.

Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer can do.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her.