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

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

- Eliyahu M. Goldratt

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

- 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

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 hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.

- 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

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

Never let something important become urgent

- Eliyahu M. Goldratt