25 InspirationalBusiness ProcessImprovement Quotes

Foreword

Customer Success Officer at TeamGuru

CEO at TeamGuru

Kate Apking Pavel Humlíček

The Art of Improvement

Improvement is a critical element both in personal and business growth. At TeamGuru.com we not only care about the service we deliver to our clients, but we love being inspired and improve the way we think (and work) every day.

The art of asking the right questions, increasing value, clarity and striving for excellence prove to be extremely helpful in every situation.

We have handpicked the top 25 quotes that helped us, and we hope you can benefit from them too. Enjoy the read!

“If I had one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining

the problem and only five minutes finding the solution.“

– Albert E instein

“All we are doing is looking at the timeline from the moment a customer gives us an order

to the point we collect the cash. And we are reducing that timeline in the value stream

by removing non value-added wastes.“

– Tai ichi Ohno

“The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.“

– Helmut Schmidt

“Don’t say it can not be done, rather say, you don’t know how to do it yet.“

– Tomas Bata

“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 Harr ington

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add,

but when there is nothing left to take away.“

– Antoine de Saint Exupery

“If you don’t ask the right questions, you don’t get the right answers. A question asked the right way often points to its own answer.

Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis.“

– Edward Hodnett

“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.“

– Vince Lombardi

“If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.“

– Steve Jobs

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement,

and success have no meaning.“

– Benjamin Frankl in

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems

than in trying to solve them.“

– Henry Ford

“Before you say you can’t do something…

TRY IT.“

– Sakichi Toyoda

“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.“

– Wi l l iam A. Foster

“The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do

things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they’re mutually reinforcing.“

– Michael Porter

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.“

– Henry Ford

“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

“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know

what you’re doing“

– W. Edwards Deming

“Everything can be improved.“

– Clarence W. Barron

“What gets measured, gets managed.“

– Peter Drucker

“If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing“

– W. Edwards Deming

“If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well enough.“

– Att r ibuted to Albert E instein

“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing,

layout, processes, and procedures.“

– Tom Peters

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

– Shigeo Shingo

“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

“Manage the cause, not the result.“

– W.E. Deming

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