Manufacturing Excellence Quotes

It's great to wave the flag - I always say we're proud to be made in America - but I think our distinction is we make it well in America.

My vision for Visy Tumut is not only to keep our position as an example of world's sustainable manufacturing, but to build on it.

Some people believe the U.S. can't compete in the design and manufacture of sophisticated products. I think we absolutely can if we pull together. We have shown that we can do that in commercial airplanes, and we can absolutely prove that we can do that in automobiles.

The glamorous side is SUVs, but frankly, the tractor side is where we are number one in the world.

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

We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

It is impossible for any power to become eminent in commerce, without excelling in manufactures and navigation. America is capable of supporting and increasing both …

America produces the world's best steel, and southwestern Pennsylvania produces the world's best steelworkers.

When they built you brother they broke the mold.

Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing -- the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they've done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America's population, exports more than America does.

There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost.

We have a few great engineers and mechanics, and a large body of clever workmen; but the Americans seem likely to become a whole nation of such people. Already, their rivers swarm with steamboats; their valleys are becoming crowded with factories; their towns, surpassing those of every state of Europe, except Belgium, Holland, and England, are the abodes of all the skill which now distinguishes a town population; and there is scarcely an art [occupation and craft] in Europe not carried on in America with equal or greater skill than in Europe, though it has been here cultivated and improved through ages.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.