If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes.

- Eliyahu M. Goldratt

If we reduce batch sizes by half, we also reduce by half the time it will take to process a batch. That means we reduce queue and wait by half as wel…

- Eliyahu M. Goldratt

So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash…

- Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It…

- Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Never let something important become urgent

- Eliyahu M. Goldratt

An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.

- Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Make the bottlenecks work only on what will contribute to throughput today … not nine months from now. That’s one way to increase capacity at the bot…

- Eliyahu M. Goldratt

An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question.

- Eliyahu M. Goldratt

I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both…

- Eliyahu M. Goldratt