When you buy bananas all you want is the fruit not the skin, but you have to pay for the skin also. It is a waste. And you the customer should not have to pay for the waste.

There are four purposes of improvement: easier, better, faster, and cheaper. These four goals appear in the order of priority.

Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.

A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.

The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they were assumed not to exist.

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

Lean is a way of thinking- not a list of things to do

Unless you change direction, you will end up where you are headed.

It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement.

Those who are not dissatisfied will never make any progress

We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System.

God has given everything an appointed time

Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.

...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

Hell was not for the living, it was for the dead, even the hallowed dead. Let the dead rest in peace. Someday Mack Bolan, too, would rest. For now, he had to find his way among the living.

My father was a guy most comfortable in the company of bricklayers and carpenters and electricians. And I have a lot of that in me also. I love those people.

There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.