Quotes About Lean

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Agile values ask us to make progress with imperfect information and to rework later as we learn more. Lean Product Development teaches us to understand the cost of delay and to recognize that earlier, faster progress to a partial solution is often better than delaying to acquire better information leading to a more complete solution.

Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.

In today's saturated marketplace, you'll go nowhere selling a "bunch of features." We are in the business of disrupting the market with brands that matter.

what does it all come down to? love? Love if you like and i like, for the reason that i hate people and lean out of this window is love, love and the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love and the reason that i do not fall into this street is love.

Of all broken reeds," Roosevelt declared, "sentimentality is the most broken reed on which righteousness can lean.

Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.

Back in 2005, I introduced a thing which, I don't mind saying this - I mean, we stole it, at least in its basic form, from Toyota - it's called World Class Manufacturing. I mean, it's this pretentious title for something which really involves the revisiting of the manufacturing processes of dedication to the removal of waste.

To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.

The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.

Really, the audience's objective is to exercise their emotions when they're watching. They want to lean in and care.

I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when I'm competing.

But Bridge understood that life didn't balance anymore. Life was a too-tall stack of books that had started to lean to one side, and each new day was another book on top.

In a movie he could dream without effort; all he had to do was lean back in a seat and keep his eyes open.

Kate leaned against the windowpane and smiled.

Even having only two arms he had a lean, powerful symmetry and grace of form.

He wore an old T-shirt with the sleeves torn off, and his lean muscles moved under coppery skin. He had a tattoo on the inside of his forearm--a small one that looked like raven wings. When he turned around, I caught the faint edge of another tattoo on his shoulder peeking from under his shirt. He glanced over, like he'd sensed me looking. When I didn't turn away, he grinned and mouthed something I didn't catch, probably didn't want to.

Out of my lean and low abilityI'll lend you something.

I bought some pork chops and told the butcher to make them lean. He said, 'Which way?'

I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.

The wayfarer was lean and keen-featured, and somewhat bowed at the shoulders; his paws were thin and long, his eyes much wrinkled at the corners, and he wore small gold ear rings in his neatly-set well-shaped ears. His

And he was athletic in a lean sort of way, his long legs able to keep up with me whenever I coerced him into driving me out to the zoo for their early open hours for runners only; those hills were killers on the calves.