Eliyahu Goldratt Quotes

The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero.

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• When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.

  

  Washed Out
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Singing

• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Simple
  • Always
  • Matter

• I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Mother

• We know that 99.9% of Arab-Israelis are loyal to Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Know
  • Israel
  • Loyal

• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Important
  • Love
  • Why

• A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Apology

• Art lies because it's social.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Art
  • Lies

• The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Gay

• Why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Why
  • Question
  • Doubt

• I verily believe that a man’s way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Men

• I make music to make you sick of fake music - hate music like devil worshippin' Satan music. So say your prayers - your Hail Mary's and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.

  

  Eminem
  • Music
  • Together
  • Hate

• False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• I want you to read the true system of the heart, drafted by a decent man and published under another name. I do not want you to be biased against good and useful books merely because a man unworthy of reading them has the audacity to call himself the Author.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Heart
  • True

• I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, at the park, I had been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Trying
  • Powerful
  • Baby

• Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Business
  • Quality

• The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics... but where to start is with true ecological function.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • True
  • Single

• What a name – Pyotr Frankis. I wondered who had made it up for him. Pyotr Frankis, Jascha – Slavs all over the place, it would seem. Just like my great-grandmother. I felt for her in my mind about the same way you’d feel for a stray piece of food in your mouth with your tongue, but as usual, I had no sense of her beyond a particularly intense memory.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mind

• And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Desire
  • Enough
  • Moon

• Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Soul
  • Mistress

• As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to capture that reality, they go to dangerous and tragic places at the expense of their lives. I see them as the conscience of our humanity; they represent for me what is left of our humanity.

  

  Alfredo Jaar
  • Reality
  • Humanity
  • Photojournalist

• The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero.

  

  Eliyahu Goldratt