Bottleneck Quote by Gene Kim

When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.

— Peter Drucker

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

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production…

— Marvin Harris

“Wilke subscribed to the principles laid out in a seminal book about constraints in manufacturing, Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s The Goal, published in 1984. The…

— Brad Stone

Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

— Gary Becker

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

— Anonymous

Priority determines capacity.

— Andy Stanley

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

— Anonymous

“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

“in the vast majority of systems, efficiency isn't critical.”

— Steve McConnell

Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

— Hilary Benn