Assembly line Quote by Sebastian Marshall

“Third-order consequences: Toyota winds up with the highest quality rates, lowest defect rates, and most efficient factories in the world.”

— Sebastian Marshall

Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that focus on…

— Peter Cochrane

“Only a handful of companies understand that all successful business operations come down to three basic principles: People, Product, Profit. Without TOP people, you…

— Malcolm Forbes

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high…

— Robert Kiyosaki

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

— Bill Gates

The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

— B. C. Forbes

Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.

— Hamdi Ulukaya

“The production philosophy pioneered by Toyota calls for a focus on those activities that create value for the customer and the systematic eradication of…

— Brad Stone

The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on…

— Clayton Christensen

“overcapacity eventually destroys profits as manufacturers are more likely to make marginal cost-based decisions to regain volume.”

— Greg Thain

It costs a lot to build bad products

— Norman Ralph Augustine

“The profit lure of mass production obviously has a place in the plans and strategy of business management, but it must always follow hard…

— Harvard Business School Press