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

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Source : Shigeo Shingo (1988). “Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System of Continuous Improvement”, p.94, CRC Press

Shigeo Shingo

#Order Quotes #Goal Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meetâ€¦is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.”
“I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.”
“I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology”
“A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.”
“There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.”
“I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.”
“Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.”
“Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.”

Source : David Quammen (2004). “Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.254, W. W. Norton & Company

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