Ian Poulter Quotes

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

When you're coming into a company and, you know, have to do a transformation, what you really want to do is look at the company and say, 'Okay, here are the parts that the company does well. How do we get those genes to hyper-express? The genes that are getting in the way, how do you turn those off?'

Even a small reduction in errors and rework can have a significant impact.

You do everything you can to be successful. You know that you have to win games. It's a must. So you do the things that put your guys in the best position to be successful schematically.

While looking ahead, we know challenges remain, but we are encouraged by the strategies we have in place to improve our operational efficiencies and performance.

Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.

Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

It is in Toyota's DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

Through the regular season, if you get really good at what you do, teams will have a hard time adjusting to you.

The team that wins makes minimum mistakes, and the one which loses, that one makes more mistakes than the other team.

I have to be in the right positions and create the right runs as much as I can.

Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community's practice.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.

It hasn't even been competitive. That's the first thing we're going to have to do is just find a way to stay competitive because these (first two games) have been over by halftime. We saw that last year too (on Halloween). It was 21-3 (Steelers) at the end of the first quarter.

We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right.

We have to be careful not to let our game not be the game we know it should be.

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.

A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future.

Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.

Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.