Eliyahu Goldratt Quotes
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If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing.
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Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine.
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For me, 'educator' is the highest title that exists.
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Conditions impact the behaviour of people.
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If you want people to take action,you must refrain from giving them the answers.
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Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.
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You need collaboration of its people; it's the only way to improve a company - can you ignore that? You need a win-win for every sub-group, which will ensure exponential growth for a company.
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Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?
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We have to have workers that will produce more and will stop work when it is not needed.
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As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.
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Growth becomes less important than stability; we have to give people changes slowly.
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I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political philosophy through an immensely popular novel.
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The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero.
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Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.
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Every person can reach a full life.
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Every conflict can be removed.
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To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.
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Every situation can be substantially improved; even the sky is not the limit.
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Almost all decisions based on cost accounting are utterly wrong.
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I call myself an educator.
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Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.
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For a foreman, heat-treat seems like a very small kingdom, not much of a prize. There is nothing intrinsically attractive about running that operation, and having only two people to manage makes it seem like no big deal. To prevent it from seeming like a demotion to them, I make a point to go down there periodically on each of the shifts. In talking to the foreman, I drop some rather direct hints that the rewards will be great for anyone who can improve the output of heat-treated parts.