Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?!
There are four purposes of improvement: easier, better, faster, and cheaper. These four goals appear in the order of priority.
Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.
A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.
The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they are assumed not to exist.
Lean is a way of thinking- not a list of things to do
The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.
We are here to help one another along life's journey.
With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights