Value Stream Quotes

#1. You need slack to enable continuous improvement. In order to have slack, you must have an unbalanced value stream with a bottleneck resource. Optimizing for utilization is not desirable.

David J. Anderson

#2. DevOps shows how we optimize the IT value stream, converting business needs into capabilities and services that provide value for our customers.

Gene Kim

#3. Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business.

Karen Martin

#4. Don't look to where you've come from. Look to where you're going.

Alison Kent

#5. You have to have confidence in who you are, because you never know who's depending on you.

LZ Granderson

#6. Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

William Shakespeare

#7. These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

Giada De Laurentiis

#8. The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.

Mary Renault

#9. I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.

Al Hirschfeld

#10. We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.

Kenneth Rogoff

#11. Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn't matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.

James McBride

#12. The truth is always of use, madonna," he answered, eyes fixed on the slender stream. "It has the value of rarity, you know.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.

John Muir

#14. Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#15. Here Spring just grows and greens and warms, spreading life, wrapping us in her arms, until suddenly we realize that she's not a girl anymore. She's a woman. A woman named Summer.

N.D. Wilson

#16. If you want engagement, you must engage.

Karen Martin

#17. Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.

Bill Gurley

#18. You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

William James

#19. When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.

Karen Martin

#20. As far as the rest of the biosphere is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But

Orson Scott Card

#21. It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.

Keith Richards

#22. Our health is our wealth.

Marian Keyes

#23. Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Michael Caine

#24. Chaos is the enemy of any organization the strives to be outstanding.

Karen Martin