Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“Whenever we think we have final answers progress, science, and better understanding ceases.”

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“No,” he says. “Through sales— not production. If you produce something, but don’t sell it, it’s not throughput. Got it?”

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“utilizing” a resource means making use of the resource in a way that moves the system toward the goal. “Activating” a resource…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt