Taiichi Ohno Quotes

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

Ask ‘why’ five times about every matter.

Without standards, there can be no improvement.

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

Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble

Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month’s manual should be out of date

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

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.

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

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.