No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training.

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

The Spartans do not ask how many but where they are.

After a taste of a Scot, you'll never look elsewhere again."A brunette smiled seductively, "That's quite a boast.""I'm quite a man.

Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

My girlfriend makes me want to be a better person... so I can get a better girlfriend.

He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it...because it wore the face of a friend.

The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.

I was having my teens in my 30s.

Good writing comes from good talent.

It's never too early to involve your kids in giving back. And the more hands-on the experiences are, the better.