Creativity Quote by Taiichi Ohno

Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even…

— Taiichi Ohno

Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

— Taiichi Ohno

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

— Taiichi Ohno

And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

— Taiichi Ohno

The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.

— Taiichi Ohno

I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become…

— Taiichi Ohno

The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements…But what is important is having…

— Taiichi Ohno

If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You…

— Taiichi Ohno

The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to…

— Taiichi Ohno

We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.

— Taiichi Ohno

When you are out observing on the gemba, do something to help them. If you do, people will come to expect that you can…

— Taiichi Ohno

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

— Taiichi Ohno