Improvement Quote by Taiichi Ohno Download Open image “Without standards, there can be no improvement.” — Taiichi Ohno ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Improvement Standards
Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson Copy Share Image
Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method. — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will… — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards. — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards. — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations. — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work. — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes. — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need. — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions. — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Create an environment for people to fail, to learn, and to grow. Their creativity and productivity will increase. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to… — Chris Kirubi Copy Share Image
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacent… — Jeffrey Lang Copy Share Image
“A responsible woman doesn’t see opportunities and needs and look the other way pretending not to see them rather she gets to work to… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
A most important lesson taught by nature. Only after destruction there is construction. Only on letting go will new opportunities crop up. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
