Eliyahu M. Goldratt

"I smile and start to count on my fingers: One, people are good. Two, every conflict can be removed. Three, every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple. Four, every…"

"Companies are so immersed in the mentality of saving money that they forget that the whole intention of a project is not to save money but to make money."

"Fundamentally, a manager is looking to answer these questions: ‘what to change?’,’ what to change to?’ and ‘ how to cause the change?’"

"If the goal is to make money, then , an action that moves us toward making money is productive. And an action that takes away from making money is non-productive."

"rate at which the system generates money through sales."

"the money the system invests in purchasing things the system intends to sell."

"There are three measurements which express the goal of making money perfectly well, but which also permit you to develop operational rules for running your plant. Their names are throughput, inventory…"

"all the money the system spends in turning inventory into throughput."