Under the lean system, any tools which are required for solving problems are used.

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.

Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.

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.

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

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

You can't do kaizen just once or twice and expect immediate results. You have to be in it for the long haul.

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

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

The standard is not writ on the stone. The definition of the standard is that it is the best way to do the job for now. It should be regarded as a next step to make further improvement.

I believe that management should focus on two particular areas. One is Gemba (shop floor) and the other is customer (not the shareholder).

Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

Embrace simplicity…be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

I'm a goofball and a comedian.

In blue Light nature space the whole world, wide grazing land, the open spaces wind across the land and the sky, blue, high

No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.

That's happened a couple times: Billy Joel. It was just, "You sound like Billy Joel." And I get really upset about that. No offense to that guy, but it's not for me.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.