Quotes About Improvement

Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.

In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life.

Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.

Just learn from your mistakes..and for give yourself..and better yourself:)

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.

If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

have now made adjustments for each of the weaknesses in my plans; finally, I am going to make that imaginary bet in my favor. I am excited to teach

Celebrate effort, not victory.

Most Business Processes Are 90% Waste and 10% Value-Added Work

Every team member has the responsibility to stop the line every time they see something that is out of standard. That's how we put the responsibility for quality in the hands of our team members.

We have to change the culture from one in which people simply do their own job in their own function to make their own numbers look good (a vertical focus) to one in which people are focused horizontally on the customer and on improving value streams that deliver value across functions.

Standardization Is the Basis for Continuous Improvement and Quality

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 that time line by removing the non-value-added wastes. (Ohno, 1988)

You do not simply, mindlessly, implement the best practices. You have to think deeply about your condition. If the "best practice" seems like a useful countermeasure for your problem, you should learn from the best practice; however, what may have worked in some other place may not work for you without adjustment and even further improvement.

No matter how many improvements have been made, every process is still full of waste and rife with opportunity to improve.

A cornerstone of the Toyota Way is "challenge

Continuous improvement means getting better every day and is the driver for building a sustainable enterprise. Only those at the gemba can understand the problems fast enough to react quickly. Continuous improvement depends on a different paradigm of the role of the human—all humans are problem detectors and problem correctors—thinking scientifically.

Rather the power behind TPS is a company's management commitment to continuously invest in its people and promote a culture of continuous improvement.

Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle, a cornerstone of continuous improvement. The Japanese term for continuous improvement is kaizen and is the process of making incremental improvements, no matter how small, and achieving the lean goal of eliminating all waste that adds cost without adding to value.

It is comforting to believe that if we could only implement the right cells and other lean tools to eliminate waste in the process, we could let it rip and get great results forever . . . or at least for a long time. But processes do not work that way.

So physically shifting from batch and queue operations (explained in greater detail later in the chapter) to one-piece flow without inventory almost guarantees you will encounter many more problems. So why do it? Precisely to allow the processes to break so we can discover the weak points and improve through kaizen.