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Lean Six Sigma Quotes

Some of the most famous quotes related to Lean Six Sigma, change management, transformation, leadership and quality, all at one place. These Lean Six Sigma quotes itself tell the gist of what Lean Six Sigma does. The basic principles of LSS summarised beautifully. Understand these and you are half set. Keep coming back to check for more for more such quotes.

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Lean Six Sigma Quotes Juergen Appelo
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Juergen Appelo

Manage the system, not the people

– Juergen Appelo


People lose their way, when they lose their way

– Michael Hyatt

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Michael Hyatt
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Michael Hyatt

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Taiichi Ohno
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Taiichi Ohno

Knowledge is something you buy with money, Wisdom is something you acquire by doing


A bad system will beat a good person every time

Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming
Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming

Lean Six Sigma Quotes E W Taylor
Lean Six Sigma Quotes E W Taylor

90% of the problems in business are caused by the management, rest by the workman


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The essential question in not “How busy are you?”, but “What are you busy at?”

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Oprah Winfrey
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Oprah Winfrey

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Taiichi Ohno
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Taiichi Ohno

What we are looking at is flowing value to customer, not making people work harder


Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Taiichi Ohno
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Taiichi Ohno

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Charles Kettering
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Charles Kettering

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong


If you have more than 3 priorities, then you don’t have any

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Jim Collins
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Jim Collins

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Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming
Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming

The workers are handicapped by the system, and the system belongs to the management


Learning how to improve is as important as improvement itself

– John Shook

Lean Six Sigma Quotes John Shook
Lean Six Sigma Quotes John Shook

Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming
Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming

We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing


Put a good performer in a bad system, the system wins every time

– Gears Rummler

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Gears Rummler
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Gears Rummler

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Aristotle
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Aristotle

Quality is not an act, it is a habit


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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence, they believe only in constant improvement and constant change

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Tom Peters
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Tom Peters

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Rick Warren
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Rick Warren

Transformation is a process, and as life happens, there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountain tops and moments in deep valleys of despair


An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Jack Welch
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Jack Welch

Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming
Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming

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


Efficiency is doing things right; Effectiveness is doing the right things

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Peter Drucker
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Peter Drucker

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Taiichi Ohno
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Taiichi Ohno

Don’t look with your eyes, look with your feet. Don’t think with your head, thing with your hands


Local optimization leads to global inefficiency

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Eliyahu Goldratt
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Eliyahu Goldratt

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Lean Six Sigma Quotes Jim Womack
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Jim Womack

The purpose of any activity must be to provide value to someone else. That is the justification for a human organization. Whether it’s a government or a school or a company


Almost all quality improvement come via simplification of design, manufacturing, layout, processes and procedures

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Tom Peters
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Tom Peters

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Jim Womack
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Jim Womack

If this lean stuff seams easy, you are probably not doing it


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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures

Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming
Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming

Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming
Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming

Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis, by building quality into the product in the first place


Lean is learning to see waste. The moment you begin to see waste, everything else will take care of itself. Until you don’t see waste in everything, you don’t understand Lean

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Paul Akers
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Paul Akers

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Shigella Shinzo
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Shigella Shinzo

The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they are assumed not to exist

– Shigella Shinzo


If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes about the solution

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Albert Einstein
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Albert Einstein

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Jim Womack
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Jim Womack

Any activity that consumes resources but creates no value from the customers perspective is a waste of one form or another that needs to be eliminated


Continuous improvement means that we never perceive current success as our final achievement

– John Hunter

Lean Six Sigma Quotes John Hunter
Lean Six Sigma Quotes John Hunter

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Lean Six Sigma Quotes Taiichi Ohno
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Taiichi Ohno

Without standards, there can be no improvement


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

– Shigella Shinzo

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Shigella Shinzo
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Shigella Shinzo

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Fuji Cho
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Fuji Cho

We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes


Having NO problem, is the biggest problem of all

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Taiichi Ohno
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Taiichi Ohno

Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming
Lean Six Sigma Quotes W Edwards Deming

Manage the cause, not the result


If you are not getting better, you are getting worst

Lean Six Sigma Quotes Pat Riley
Lean Six Sigma Quotes Pat Riley

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Sachin Naik

Passionate about improving processes and systems | Lean Six Sigma practitioner, trainer and coach for 14+ years consulting giant corporations and fortune 500 companies on Operational Excellence | Start-up enthusiast | Change Management and Design Thinking student | Love to ride and drive

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