Taiichi Ohno Quotes
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'.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.
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It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
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People have said I belong in a rubber room because I look for wrecks, and when I find them, I just do a survey. I don't look for treasure or artifacts.
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
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Where opportunities to expand trade and commerce exist, we will lead, and we will partner.
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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'.
