Business Quote by Alan Blinder

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't…

— Lee Iacocca

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

— Lee Iacocca

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and…

— Anonymous

The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.

— Taiichi Ohno

There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.

— James Mattis

Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.

— Hamdi Ulukaya

The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear.

— Barry Libert

“inventory-management systems, such as retailers, tend to be the developers of new approaches to inventory management. In contrast, manufacturers of inventory-management systems and equipment…

— Eric von Hippel

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

— Friedrich List

“Retailers are more vulnerable than manufacturers to small changes in volume because it adversely affects their asset turnover, which is a much bigger driver…

— Greg Thain

Any business, no matter what it is, lives or dies by the customer reaction it creates.

— Jon Taffer

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?

— James C. Collins