Kaizen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.
-- Bob Parsons

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Sometimes the best kaizen is no kaizen at all.
-- Jon Miller

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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.
-- Masaaki Imai

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

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

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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
-- Masaaki Imai

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If you are going to do kaizen continuouslyyou've got to assume that things are a mess. Too many people just assume that things are all right the way they are. Â Aren't you guys convinced that the way you're doing things is the right way? That's no way to get anything done. Kaizen is about changing the way things are. Â If you assume that things are all right the way they are, you can't do kaizen. So change something!
-- Taiichi Ohno

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Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen
-- Taiichi Ohno

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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.
-- Masaaki Imai

#Philosophy #Home #Kaizen

You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.
I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.
I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.
The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair and let the story take your imagination away. Come visit an enchanted eighteenth-century England and meet two desperate lovers caught in the web of a sinister lord with great magical power. Romantic and lyrical, this tale will fill your reading time with pleasure. I loved it.
I hate feet, they're disgusting! What are they even for?
The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.
We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.