Finite Quote by Eliyahu Goldratt

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

— Taiichi Ohno

Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps…

— Eckhard Pfeiffer

“Disaggregating Costs You need to break down (segment and isolate) cost into its component parts, and you can do this in many different ways.”

— Victor Cheng

Cost is the only issue when there is no value. When there is value, the cost is irrelevant.

— Carl A Dixon

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

— Anonymous

We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result.…

— Henry Ford

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not…

— Donald Knuth

Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem…

— Thomas Nagel

“When analyzing costs, it’s often useful to segment them into fixed versus variable costs. You can do this in two ways. One way is…

— Victor Cheng

We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing unique about pricing.

— Josh S Weston

If the cost is too high or the goal out of reach, the healthy thing to do is to let go and change your…

— Kumar Anupam

You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

— Barack Obama