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

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

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).

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

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.

People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians

Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.

If you want to talk, it's okay with me. I sit and relax.

If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.

I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

Preparation is the biggest key right now.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.