Eliyahu M. Goldratt Quotes
All this is, if I understand it correctly, is a different way of doing the accounting. All employee time—whether it’s direct or indirect, idle time or operating time, or whatever—is operational expense, according to Jonah. You’re still accounting for it. It’s just that his way is simpler, and you don’t have to play as many games.
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A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
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The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.
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And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
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All this is, if I understand it correctly, is a different way of doing the accounting. All employee time—whether it’s direct or indirect, idle time or operating time, or whatever—is operational expense, according to Jonah. You’re still accounting for it. It’s just that his way is simpler, and you don’t have to play as many games.
