Inspirational lean quotes from successful leaders

To be successful with developing a Lean Culture, requires passion, nerve, engagement, focus and strong leadership...summed up beautifully here in quotes

1. Inspirational quotes around
developing Lean cultures
August 2016

2. What is a Lean Culture?

Crea0ng a Lean Culture involves ge4ng
everyone to see and embrace Lean; to see
waste and remove it; to ques0on everything
they do; to act only on facts and not opinion,
and work together, not in silos.
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3. The simplicity of Lean
‘All we are doing is looking at the 2me line, from
the moment the customer gives us an order to
the point when we collect the cash.

And we are reducing the 2me line by reducing
the non-value adding wastes’.

Taiichi Ohno, Toyota
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4. How Lean challenges the
status quo
‘If I’d asked my customers what they wanted,
they would have said a faster horse’.

Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company
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5. A Lean culture focuses success
‘Perfec2on is not possible but if we chase
perfec2on, then we can catch excellence’.

Vince Lombardi, NFL Coach of the Year
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6. Lean success and change go
hand in hand
‘Progress is impossible without change and
those that cannot change their mind, cannot
change anything’.

George Bernard Shaw
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7. To be considered successful, a Lean
culture must be sustainable
‘Con2nuous improvement is beCer than delayed
perfec2on’.

Mark Twain
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8. The success of developing a Lean
culture is 100% reliant on the
leadership’s ac0ve engagement
‘A leader leads by example, whether he intends
to or not’.

Author unknown
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9. A truly Lean culture constantly
evolves due to the determina0on,
insight and passion of the en0re team
‘Excellence is not a des2na2on; it is a con2nuous
journey that never ends’.

Brian Tracy, Consultant and Author
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10. The success of a Lean culture comes
from the goal being uncompromising
‘Lean thinking defines value as bringing benefit
to the customer; anything else is waste (and
needs to be eliminated)’.

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author
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11. A Lean culture creates compe00ve
advantage….without it, can leave
you in the wake of the compe0tors
‘The successful man (or team), is one that finds
out what is wrong with their business…before
their compe2tors do’.

Roy L Smith, Author
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12. Of course Lean is not the answer to
every organisa>on’s woes but it
should ALWAYS result in improved
performance and significant cost
reduc>on
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