Eliyahu M. Goldratt Quotes
Well, I don’t. Not absolutely. But adopting "making money’’ as the goal of a manufacturing organization looks like a pretty good assumption. Because, for one thing, there isn’t one item on that list that’s worth a damn if the company isn’t making money.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
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I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.
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When someone gets closely related to a character they play on TV, it's very hard to break that mold and go on to do something else.
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The future projects light, the past only clouds.
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I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.
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My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
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Well, I don’t. Not absolutely. But adopting "making money’’ as the goal of a manufacturing organization looks like a pretty good assumption. Because, for one thing, there isn’t one item on that list that’s worth a damn if the company isn’t making money.
