Masaaki imai quotes about life

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

#Kaizen#Messages#Kind

Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.
-- Masaaki Imai

#Mistake#Progress#Impossible

Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.
-- Masaaki Imai

#Mean#Ongoing#Kaizen

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement.

For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement
-- Masaaki Imai

#Maintenance#Improvement#Reason

You can't do kaizen just once or twice and expect immediate results.

You have to be in it for the long haul.
-- Masaaki Imai

#Long#Kaizen#Results

Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time
-- Masaaki Imai

#Change#Innovation#Kaizen

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