“You can’t do kaizen just once or twice and expect immediate results. You have to be in it for the long haul.”
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Masaaki Imai 19
Japanese business theorist and consultant 1930Related quotes
“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”
Source: Assassin's Apprentice
“They’re just ordinary people,” Nancy said. “You can’t expect too much of them.”
Source: All Flesh is Grass (1965), Chapter 17 (p. 179)
Autograph profile (2010)
Context: I go to bed angry every night, I wake up angry every morning. There are certain injustices in this life you’ve got to do something about. You can’t just say that you can’t fight it, or it’s too much trouble, or that you don’t have the time or the effort, or that you can’t win. Forget all that. Fight them all! I fight them all because you never know which one is the big one. You never know which you give up and then it will come back and bite you in the ass. You never look away from a mountain lion, you lock eyes and you don’t let him get behind you.
“The most difficult thing is when you can’t do anything. When you just have to wait.”
short quotes, 9 November 1965; p. 54
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
[Woodhull Freedom Foundation mourns death of one of its founders, Jeffrey Montgomery, Levy, Ricci J., Woodhull Freedom Foundation, July 19, 2016, 2016-07-20, http://www.woodhullfoundation.org/2016/sex-and-politics/woodhull-freedom-foundation-mourns-death-of-one-of-its-founders-jeffrey-montgomery-a-leader-activist-a-mentor-and-sexual-freedom-movement-hero/]
"An Interview with Gary Locke, Former U.S. Ambassador to China" in The Yale Politic https://thepolitic.org/an-interview-with-gary-locke-former-u-s-ambassador-to-china/ (5 June 2017)
Source: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 1 (“Lobsters”), pp. 14-15
