Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.
It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system. . . thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.
All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.
Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.
The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'.
Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately apparent. In terms of quantity, it means that progress or delay, measured against the plan, and is made immediately apparent. When this is done, problems can be discovered immediately, and everyone can initiate improvement plans.
Without standards, there can be no improvement.
The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.
Found, I told myself. Try to get found.
The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.