Throughput Quotes

#1. My word processor has spell-check capability, which lets me add words that didn't originally come in its comprehensive dictionary. It's interesting to see what words I had to add when writing this book: feedback, throughput, overshoot, self-organization, sustainability.

Donella H. Meadows

#2. My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.

Malvinder Mohan Singh

#3. Now I feel bad I didn't give her the second quarter. Grandma says that's called having a conscience.

Emma Donoghue

#4. Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.

Hans Vestberg

#5. 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 bottlenecks. The other way you increase bottleneck capacity is to take some of the load off the bottlenecks and give it to non-bottlenecks.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#6. You make the Titanic look like a tiny little misadventure.

Gina Ranalli

#7. Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

Theodor Herzl

#9. They're measurements which express the goal of making money perfectly well, but which also permit you to develop operational rules for running your plant," he says. "There are three of them. Their names are throughput, inventory and operational expense.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#10. 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 throughput and inventory.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#11. When we arrived at his cottage we had known each other forever.

Laurie R. King

#12. It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through enormous change, it's very appealing to play all those levels, and that is probably going to involve some dark moments.

Tracy Pollan

#13. The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#14. We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

#15. The entire bottleneck concept is not geared to decrease operating expense, it's focused on increasing throughput.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#16. You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.

Len Evans

#17. Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

Hideo Kojima