Toyota Quotes

• 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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• 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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• Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer; anything else is waste.

  Eric Ries

  Thinking, Benefits, Waste

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.48, Crown Business

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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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• We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes

  Fujio Cho

  Average, Differences, People

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• 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 all the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner, not in spurts.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Keys, Important, Together

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• We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Want, Masters, Lean Manufacturing

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• And just like you, I will die at some unknown date in the future. I just come equipped with a few extra powers. (Sebastian) I see. I’m a Toyota. You’re a Lamborghini.(Channon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lamborghini, Like You, Extras

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• I like the way the old Toyotas look.

  Judd Nelson

  Looks, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no end to the process of learning about the Toyota Way. I don't think I have a complete understanding even today, and I have worked for the company for 43 years.

  Katsuaki Watanabe

  Thinking, Years, Understanding

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• John Shook's experience shows just how important problemsolving is at Toyota - it comes before any other job skill for the graduate intake. When I joined Toyota in Toyota City (where for a time I was the only American) in late 1983, every newly hired college graduate employee began learning his job by being coached [...]

  Martin Burns

  Jobs, College, Skills

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• Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.

  Eric Ries

  Thinking, Benefits, Waste

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• Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

  Ross Perot

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• 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.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Race, Waste, Causes

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• Practice for us went pretty well. It started out slow, but guys did a real nice job on the M&M’s Camry today to get us to where we needed to be. Everybody back at the shop is building some great stuff and TRD (Toyota Racing Development) making some improvements for the Chase here this weekend and whatnot. Having a good time there in practice means a lot, but there’s obviously a lot of things that need to happen in the race this weekend for us and getting off to a good start and being able to carry that into the next 10 weeks.

  Kyle Busch

  Jobs, Real, Nice

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• The car bomb was fertilizer, gasoline, fireworks and propane tanks...still safer than a Toyota.

  Bill Maher

  Car, Tanks, Bombs

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• Many good American companies have respect for individuals, and practice Kaizen and other TPS {Toyota Production System} tools. But what is important is having all of the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner–not in spurts–in a concrete way on the shop floor.

  Fujio Cho

  Practice, Important, Together

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• Eventually, though, I came to the conclusion that I was the male equivalent of a Toyota Camry. You know: No one ever says, "I have to have a Toyota Camry." But most people who spend some time in a Camry start to like it. "It's pretty reliable," they think. "It doesn't have a lot of problems, and it's not bad to look at. You know what? I'd probably prefer a nicer car. But I can live with a Camry.

  Justin Halpern

  Thinking, People, Car

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• I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

  Carol Vorderman

  Cutting, Hair, Tiny

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• I decided on a vision. I think I maybe join Toyota at the midpoint of a project, whose long-term goal is winning world championships. Also I have my big ambition, the drivers' world championship. That is not abandoned - entirely the opposite. I am young enough and motivated enough to make a new start in order to reach this goal.

  Michael Schumacher

  Ambition, Winning, Thinking

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• I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

  Apolo Ohno

  Winter, Ice, Two

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• She already has a car.” “A Ford. That’s like Toyota’s worst enemy.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Worst Enemy, Car, Enemy

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization, introduction of takt time, synchronization, shortening the total production lead time which I am fond of referring to as non statistical tools.

  Masaaki Imai

  Tools, Introduction, Company

  Source: blog.deming.org

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• I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.

  Maurice Strong

  Leadership, Commitment, Research And Development

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• In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing the hell out of the Sequoia and other models with terrible gas mileage.

  Chris Paine

  Marketing, Pushing, Hell

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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