Frases de Kiichiro Toyoda

Kiichiro Toyoda foi um empreendedor japonês e filho do fundador da Toyoda Loom Works, Sakichi Toyoda. Sua decisão de criar na indústria fabricante de teares automáticos de seu pai um departamento de fabricação de automóveis deu origem no que se tornaria a Toyota Motor Corporation, a maior fabricante de automóveis do mundo. E assim criando a umas das melhores montadoras Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Junho 1894 – 27. Março 1952
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Kiichiro Toyoda: Frases em inglês

“The thieves may be able to follow the design plans and produce a loom. But we are modifying and improving our looms every day. They do not have the expertise gained from the failures it took to produce the original. We need not be concerned. We need only continue as always, making our improvements.”

Kiichiro Toyoda in The Toyota Way, 2001: Quoted in: "Toyota quotes," New York Times, Feb. 10, 2008.
Comment by Kiichiro Toyoda after thieves had stolen the plans for a new loom from his father's workshop.

“My father served the State by investing a weaving machine. He told me to make automobiles. It is difficult to create an automobile industry.”

Kiichiro Toyoda cited in: Ethiopia: Trade and Economic Review, (1969), p. 144
Comment by Kiichiro Toyoda at the preview of the first Toyota vehicles ever rolled out of the assembly line.

“[The Japanese auto industry should] catch up with America in three years. Otherwise the Japanese auto industry will never stand on its own.”

Kiichiro Toyoda (1945), quoted in: Kazuo Sato (2010), The Anatomy of Japanese Business, p. 135

“Before you say you can't do something, try it.”

Attributed to Sakichi and Kiichiro Toyoda in: Emi Osono, ‎Norihiko Shimizu, ‎Hirotaka Takeuchi (2008), Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer. p. 86