Cash Quote by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“They’re measurements which express the goal of making money perfectly well, but which also permit you to develop operational rules for running your plant,”…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“The entire bottleneck concept is not geared to decrease operating expense, it’s focused on increasing throughput.”

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“Operational expense,” he says. “Operational expense is all the money the system spends in order to turn inventory into throughput.”

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“any doubt what goes on. I’m puzzling over how to do this when”

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes.

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“What we know now,” I tell him, “is that we shouldn’t be looking at each local area and trying to trim it. We should…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“What you’re saying is that making an employee work and profiting from that work are two different things.”

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt