Here are Inspiring Lean Six Sigma Quotes:
Lean Six Sigma, a superhero of efficiency, empowers companies to excel. It trims waste, boosts quality, and wields a treasure trove of motivating quotes. Blending Lean’s efficiency and Six Sigma’s precision, it’s like a perpetual bullseye, enhancing performance, cutting costs, and satisfying customers. These aren’t just random words; they’re wisdom from quality gurus illuminating the path to continuous improvement. Join our journey through their insights, from old-school heroes like W. Edwards Deming to modern experts. These Inspiring lean six sigma quotes unlock the secrets of efficiency, quality, and enduring success. Lean Six Sigma isn’t just a mantra; it’s a proven route to excellence, accessible to all.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter F. Drucker
Continuous improvement is not about the things you do well — that’s work. Continuous improvement is about removing the things that get in the way of your work. The headaches, the things that slow you down, that’s what continuous improvement is all about.
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.
Andrew Grove
If you need a new process and don’t install it, you pay for it without getting it.
Ken Stork
Without a Standard, there is no logical basis for decision making or taking action
Joseph M. Juran
Don’t water your weeds.
Harvey McKay
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The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook
Willful waste brings woeful want.
Thomas Fuller
Lean Thinking provides a way to specify value, line up value-creating actions in the best sequence, conduct these activities without interruption whenever someone requests them, and perform them more and more effectively.
Lean Thinking, James P. Womack
If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.
Henry Ford
Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.
Shigeo Shingo
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’
Taiichi Ohno
Everything can be improved.
Clarence W. Barron
All kinds of wastes occur when we try to produce the same product in large, homogeneous quantities. In the end, costs rise. It is much more economical to make each item one at a time. The former method is the Ford production system and the latter is the Toyota production system.
Taiichi Ohno; Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production.
The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.
Shigeo Shingo
There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert.
Robert Brault
Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.
H. James Harrington, Author & Management Mentor
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Mark Twain
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
William Bruce Cameron
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. Edwards Deming
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is Success.
Henry Ford
Nature does constant value stream mapping — it’s called evolution.
Carrie Latet
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
If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
W. Edwards Deming
We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.
Max DePree
If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Lawrence J. Peter
Speed is everything. It is the indispensable ingredient to competitiveness.
Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001
Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.
Malcolm Gladwell
It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages.
Henry Ford
The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison
If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.
Steve Jobs
Don’t waste time learning the ‘tricks of the trade.’ Instead, learn the trade.
James Charlton
The lean producer . . . combines the advantages of craft and mass production, while avoiding the high cost of the former and the rigidity of the latter. . . . Lean production is “lean” because it uses less of everything compared with mass production—half the human effort in the factory, half the manufacturing space, half the investment in tools, half the engineering hours to develop a new product in half the time.
James Womack, The Machine That Changed the World
Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
An environment where people have to think brings with it wisdom, and this wisdom brings with it kaizen [continuous improvement].
Teruyuki Minoura
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, President, Toyota Motor Corporation
Who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gough
Waste is a tax on the whole people.
Albert W. Atwood
Startups that succeed are those that manage to iterate enough times before running out of resources.
Eric Ries
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Winston Churchill
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless
Thomas A. Edison
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming
The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.
Masaaki Imai
Great companies will have strong lean vision in place with the Senior Management Vision and are working daily at getting on with doing a small number of important things consistently – day in, day out, week after week, month after month, year after year, as part of the middle management action plans. And finally the results must be visible at the Shop floor level. That is what make for effective lean leadership within companies.
TXM, Total Excellence Manufacturing
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
William A. Foster
There are three kinds of leaders. Those that tell you what to do. Those that allow you to do what you want. And Lean leaders that come down to the work and help you figure it out.
John Shook
Running Lean is a systematic process for iterating from Plan A to a plan that works, before running out of resources.
Ash Maurya
Copying your competitor won’t help you beat your competitor. You need to think beyond your competitor.
Gerhard Plenert and Bill Kirchmier
The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work.
William E. Conway Jr.
Speed is Everything. It is the indispensable ingredient to competitiveness.
Jack Welch
Quality depends on good data. It also depends on executive leadership in using that data.
Juran Institute, Inc.
Anybody who recognizes waste will try to eliminate it. The real problem is when people do not recognize waste when they see it.
Shigeo Shingo, Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System of Continuous Improvement, 1987
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
Your lean process should be a lean process.
Author unknown
Many people think that Lean is about cutting heads, reducing the work force or cutting inventory. Lean is really a growth strategy. It is about gaining market share and being prepared to enter in or create new markets.
Ernie Smith, Lean Event Facilitator in the Lean Enterprise Forum at the University of Tennessee
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
Some of our greatest industrial organizations have learned their A, B, C’sin waste elimination and have found themselves well repaid, but they are still at the beginning, and the time is coming when every man who lays any claim to business ability will have to keep the question of waste before him constantly as now he does those of credit and collections, buying and selling.
Thomas A. Edison, as quoted in Business and The Book-Keeper, 1911
Plans are nothing, planning is everything.
Philip Kotler
To be competitive, we have to look for every opportunity to improve efficiencies and productivity while increasing quality. Lean manufacturing principles have improved every aspect of our processes.
Cynthia Fanning, Product General Manager for dishwashers at GE Appliances
Lean Automation – the position of the words shows lean comes before automation. By leaning out your operation you may find out your ROI for automation is not what you thought.
Dave Waters
The right place and the right time is here and now.
Michelle Ustaszeski
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.
Jeffrey K. Liker
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
If this lean stuff seams easy, you are probably not doing it.
Jim Womack
Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance.
Taiichi Ohno
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
The starting point for improvement is to recognize the need.
Masaaki Imai
Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.
Phil Crosby.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision and action can change the world.
Joel A. Barker, futurist
Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water, every ship has a good captain.
Swedish proverb
I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.
Eli M. Goldratt, The Goal
Senior management is simply a flag bearer when a business decision is made. It is of no use unless others follow the flag.
Eiji Toyoda, former Chairman of Toyota
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