Optimum Quotes

• Just remember we are always talking about the organization as a whole—not about the manufacturing department, or about one plant, or about one department within the plant. We are not concerned with local optimums.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Remember
  • Organization
  • Manufacturing

• If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • Trying
  • Couple
  • Optimum

• I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Trying
  • Moving
  • Dark

• The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

  

  James Fallows
  • Single
  • Management
  • Optimum

• In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.

  

  Butler Lampson
  • Resources
  • Disaster
  • Optimum

• If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.

  

  Walter Willett
  • Health
  • Should
  • Amount

• The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Training
  • Coaches
  • Piece

• The optimum human population of earth is zero.

  

  David Foreman
  • Earth
  • Population
  • Optimum