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• Your mistake does not define who you are... you
  are your possibilities.
• -Oprah Winfrey

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• So much of what we call management consists in
  making it difficult for people to work.
• - Peter F. Drucker

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• Whenever there is a product for a customer,
  there is a value stream. The challenge lies in
  seeing it.
• Learning to See by Rother and Shook

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• Quality is free, however
• the Management Systems that proliferate it are
  not .
• Jay Watson

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• If you forget you have to struggle for
  improvement you go backward.
• Geoffrey Hickson

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• "Success often comes to those who have the
  aptitude to see way down the road."
• - Laing Burns, Jr.

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• The conventional definition of management is
  getting work done through people, but real
  management is developing people through work. 
• - Agha Hasan Abedi

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• Think Safety.
• See It. Report It. Fix It.
• - Gary Shepherd

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• Almost all quality improvement comes via
  simplification of design, manufacturing...
  layout, processes, and procedures.
• - Tom Peters

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• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you
  must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to
  win.
• Zig Zigglar

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• Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness
  is doing the right thing. -Zig Zigglar

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• You can talk so much. The proof is how you
  compete to the guy next to you and if a guy makes
  a mistake, you've got to be there to pick him up
  and not put him down.
• -Anson Carter

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• The point is
• youd better figure out what your Customers the
  Customers you want value. Because thats what
  theyll buy.
• Anything else is a waste of their money, and
  theyll figure that out in a hurry.
• Gordon Bethune

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• Dont second guess,
• think Safety First!
• Jack Morrow

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• "Japanese management practices succeed simply
  because they are good management practices. This
  success has little to do with cultural factors.
  And the lack of cultural bias means that these
  practices can be and are just as successfully
  employed elsewhere."
• Masaaki Imai

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• Lean is the endless pursuit of waste
  elimination.
• LeanBreakthru Consulting Group

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• "You can have everything in life that you want if
  you will just help enough other people get what
  they want."
• Zig Zigglar

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• It's through curiosity and looking at
  opportunities in new ways that we've always
  mapped our path at Dell. There's always an
  opportunity to make a difference.
• Michael Dell

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• Human improvement is from within outward.
•  - James A. Froude

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• "A good solution can be successfully applied to
  almost any problem."
• Big Al's Law

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• It is often the last key on the ring which opens
  the door.
• proverb

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for
  tomorrow.
• unknown

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• "Change is the window through which the future
  enters your life."
• unknown

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• Improvement begins with I.
• Arnold H. Glasgow

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• "A great company continuously measures and
  improves the following attributes meritocracy,
  fairness, justice, openness, speed , imagination
  and excellence in execution."
• Narayana Murthy

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• If you give people tools, and they use their
  natural ability and their curiosity, they will
  develop things in ways that will surprise you
  very much beyond what you might have expected.
• unknown

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• The pursuit of perfection often impedes
  improvement.
• George F. Will

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"Being good enough, is not good enough give
customers a reason to be faithful."   Graham
Roberts-Phelps
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• Safety First,
• or First Aid !
• unknown

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• The Largest Room in the World is the Room for
  Improvement.
• unknown

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"Traditional functional paradigm has done more to
impede customer focused, business performance
improvement over the past two decades than almost
any other factor." Andrew Spanyi 
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If at first you do succeed, try something
harder. proverb 
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"Change before you have to."   Jack Welch 
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"One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has
been successful is that my style of leadership
will no longer be tolerated in this company."  
Jack Welch 
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10 Commandments of Improvement -
by Gemba Research
1 Abandon fixed ideas 2 Think of ways to
make it possible 3 No excuses needed 4 Go
for the simple solution, not the perfect one 5
Correct mistakes right away 6 Use your wits,
not your wallet 7 Problems are opportunities
8 Repeat why? five times 9 Seek ideas
from many people 10 There is no end to
improvement
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• Dream
• but dont quit your day job.
• -Forrest Gump