Top 10 Lean Manufacturing Quotes by Henry Ford

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Arguably one of the first to implement

Just In Time and Lean Manufacturing

techniques in his Model T factories,

Ford was able to bring the automobile

to America. Although some of his

quotes are controversial, his

manufacturing wisdom still holds true

today. We've compiled a list of the top

10 lean manufacturing quotes by Henry

Ford to remind us of his wisdom.

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"The greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value."

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"When everything seems to be going against you, remember,  an airplane

takes off against the wind, not with it."

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"Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in

merely finding a better way to do a useless thing."

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“Quality means doing it right when no one is

looking.”

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"Be ready to revise anysystem, scrap any

method, abandon anytheory, if the success of

the job requires it."

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"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes

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"To resent efficiency isa mark of inefficiency."

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"If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster

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"The  only real mistake is the one from which

we learn nothing."

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"Man minus the Machine is a slave;

Man plus the Machine is a freeman."

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