Inspirational Quotations   Inspirational quotations related to Lean Thinking and Change Management: Some serious , some humorous and some that are just good old common sense.

Below are a list of quotes that I particularly enjoy. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so"

Douglas Adams

(In his address to students at the beginning of a new academic year)
”I intended to give you some advice but now I remember how much is left over from last year”

George Harris

“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never any use to oneself”

Oscar Wilde

“I am delighted to be with you. In fact, at my age, I am delighted to be anywhere”

Ronal Reagan

"There are no short cuts to any place worth going"

Beverly Sills

“A man can fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blames somebody else”

John Paul Getty

“I was born in very sorry circumstances. My mother was sorry and my father was sorry as well”

Norman Wisdom

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business”

Henry Ford

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen”

Albert Einstein

“Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Tho’ they may gang a kenning wrang,To step aside is human”

Robert Burns

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one”

Elbert Hubbard

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything”

E.J. Phelps

“Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it; if you are sick you shouldn’t take it”

Henry Ford

“History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today”

Henry Ford

“Of course I don’t look busy, I did it right first time”

Scott Adams

 
“Imagination is more important than knowledge”

Albert Einstein

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up”

Mark Twain

“This is the sort of English up with which I will not put”

Sir Winston Churchill

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile”

Albert Einstein

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the
pessimist fears this is true”

James Branch Campbell

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”

Sir Winston Churchill

“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live”

Mark Twain

“There is no sin except stupidity”

Oscar Wilde

“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations”

Edward de Bono

“When in doubt, tell the truth”

Mark Twain

“Just about the time you think that you can make both ends meet, somebody moves the ends”

Pansy Penner

“There are two essential strategies in business:
1. Never reveal all you know.”

Anon

“Change is inevitable…except from a vending machine”

Anon

“If you want to make enemies, try to change something”

Woodrow Wilson

“Any club that would accept me as a member, I wouldn’t want to join”

Groucho Marx

"Some people take no mental excercise apart from jumping to conclusions"

Harold Acton

“You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed doing”

Sydney J. Harris

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me”

Fred Allen

“An expert is somebody who is more than fifty miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice

he gives, and shows slides”

Ed Meese

“I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn’t looking good either.”

Scott Adams

"What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve"

Clement Stone

“Stress is your body’s way of saying you haven’t worked enough unpaid overtime”

Scott Adams

"The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize."

Shigeo Shingo

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

Albert Einstein

“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.”

Taiichi Ohno

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