Eliyahu M. Goldratt Quotes

Productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

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• Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Women
  • Become

• Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Human
  • Stories
  • Ends

• I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Always

• Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • End

• After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Home
  • Me
  • Run

• When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Home
  • Dream
  • Control

• I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Up
  • She
  • Reading

• Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Life
  • Family
  • Health

• I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • High
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

  

  Dan Millman
  • World
  • Love
  • Happy

• Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Lies
  • Difference
  • Wit

• When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • World
  • Writing
  • Live

• E.U.-U.S. ties are deeper than any change in politics.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Change
  • Politics
  • Deeper

• I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Childhood

• There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Done
  • Road

• There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Place
  • Romantic

• The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Lucky

• My album was recorded in Nashville. It used to be all about "We're from Texas, forget Nashville," well you'll never hear me say that. Nashville isn't bad as long as you're true to yourself.

  

  Cody Johnson
  • Long
  • Forget
  • Albums

• At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.

  

  Paul Pierce
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Feels

• In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Food
  • Morning
  • Summer

• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

  

  William James
  • Evil
  • Fate
  • Spinning

• Productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Goal
  • Company
  • Productivity