Toyota Quotes

“When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.”
― Karen Martin, The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

“When a business utilizes resources wisely, it becomes better able to widen the margins between revenues and expenses.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Chaos is the enemy of any organization the strives to be outstanding.”
― Karen Martin, The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

“If you want engagement, you must engage.”
― Karen Martin, The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

“Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business.”
― Karen Martin, The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence

“Our own attitude is that we are charged with discovering the best way of doing everything.”
― Mark Graban, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction

“Some might debate whether people are born with talent, or whether it is developed. Toyota’s stand is clear—give us the seeds of talent and we will plant them, tend the soil, water and nurture the seedlings, and eventually harvest the fruits of our labor... Of course the wise farmer selects only the best seeds, but even with careful selection there is no guarantee that the seeds will grow, or that the fruits they yield will be sweet, and yet the effort must be made because it provides the best chance of developing a strong crop.”
― Jeffrey K. Liker, Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way

“These mods made significant improvements to the cars – enough so that I changed my mind (another procedure altogether) every time I thought of selling the damn thing and buying a Toyota. I hope you benefit from this and preserve your ailing finances!
Good luck!”
― Christina Engela, Bugspray

“To implement the Toyota production system in your own business, there must be a total understanding of waste. Unless all sources of waste are detected and crushed, success will always be just a dream.”
― Taiichi Ohno