Manufacturing Quotes

• The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Systems And Processes, Kaizen, Waste

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• Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Mean, Done, Improvement

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• The world we have created is a product of our thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Thinking, World

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  Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• 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.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Thinking, Mind, Use

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• Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat?  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’

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Creativity, Thinking, Sweat

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• Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

  Henry Ford

  Doe, Waste, Wasting Time

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.142, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Good People, Systems Thinking, Good Person

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• Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Automation, Efficiency

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• 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'.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Creativity, Thinking, People

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

  Henry Ford

  Waste, Wasting Time, Lean Manufacturing

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.142, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Order, Giving, Cash

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• Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Useless Stuff, Time Management

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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

  Taiichi Ohno

  Lines, Waste, Reducing

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, Enough, Efficiency

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• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Marketing

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

  Charles Babbage

  Time, Technology, People

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.

  Kevin Carson

  Change, Order, Law

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