Need Quote by Eliyahu Goldratt

We have to have workers that will produce more and will stop work when it is not needed.

— Eliyahu Goldratt

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

— Karl Marx

The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The process is not just the sum of its parts.

— W. Edwards Deming

In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to…

— Robert Trout

The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production

— Louis Althusser

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it…

— Kevin Kelly

The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by…

— Ellen MacArthur

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed…

— Ludwig von Mises

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

— Richard Meier

In diminishing the role of the worker's body in the labor process, industrial technology has also tended to diminish the importance of the worker.…

— Shoshana Zuboff

The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.

— Hermann Biggs