Eliyahu Goldratt Quotes

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

Good management has helped me find much of the success I've got.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.

No altered system will work a miracle. Any wild experiment will only add to the confusion. Our best assurance lies in efficient administration of our proven system

I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

I think one key part of doing more with less is to be more strategic, to realize what the objectives you're truly trying to accomplish are and then to drive with greater focus towards those objectives.

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

I put projects together. I put people together.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.