Perhaps you will be able to gain a small insight into who I am by reading a few quotes from some of my favorite authors.

"The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements.... But what is important is having all the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner—not in spurts." -- Taiichi Ohno

"The more inventory a company has, … the less likely they will have what they need." -- Taiichi Ohno

"Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts." --Taiichi Ohno

"Toyota’s continued success...is ultimately based on its ability to cultivate leadership, teams, and culture, to devise strategy, to build supplier relationships, and to maintain a learning organization." -- Jeffrey Liker

"Even if the target seems so high as to be unachievable at first glance, if you explain the necessity to all the people involved and insist upon it, everyone will become enthusiastic in the spirit of challenge, will work together, and achieve it." -- Ichiro Suzuki

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -- Leo Tolstoy

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." -- Charles Dickens

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved." -- Victor Hugo

"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'." -- Alexandre Dumas