T. Harv Eker Quotes

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

But now they have it down to a real science where it's about an hour.

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

I used to have to pick up the phone and talk to people who placed orders for the car. When you reach a certain size, you need to have processes in place.

CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

It's not about working harder; it's about working the system.

When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

A shot is a lever; it's all it is. You don't open a car door differently each time. A car door is efficient - it opens and closes. So is a shot.

The whole idea behind virtual integration is that it lets you meet customers' needs faster and more efficiently than any other model. With vertical integration, you can be an efficient producer - as long as the world isn't changing very much.

Take the time to create an easy-flowing process that makes the sale, saves time, and gives you the best chance to scale a system that can pay off as you grow and scale.

I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.

We want a system that creates the same exact sandwich, very rapidly and very consistently, every single time.

Manufacturing all over the world has the benefit of efficiency. That's great. I support it.

Uniformity is the friend of scalability.

Momentum solves 80% of your problems.

I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.

Order is the key to all problems.