Eliyahu Goldratt Quotes

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

You’re putting in the same number of hours a week but we are just repackaging it more efficiently.

The skills and productivity of American Workers, .... are the greatest economic resource our country has.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

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

Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them.

Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

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.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.

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

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

I don’t buy the argument that there are certain jobs that American just will not do.

Our nations workers are our nation’s greatest asset.

When you’re dealing with a commodity, high productivity means that nobody makes any money.

The only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Man is born to labor.

The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.

This is 1930, not 1898. We have not only arrived at a 44-hour week but in this machine age we are arriving at the time when all workers will soon be given a 40-hour week.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them