An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question.

So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.

The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.

Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave

I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.

If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes.

Never let something important become urgent

Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.

An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.

I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow.

No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

To find your own way in life, start going with all of your heart to find the beauty of life.

As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin

As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.

For a degenerate like me, Vegas is like a walk down memory lane. Last time I went to Vegas, I went to my old coke dealer's kid's bar mitzvah.

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.

Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

I've never understood why people get mad at others for not being interested in them romantically - especially when there are so many reasons to be mad at people that are within their control.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

The corporations have all their marketing tools, but it's so much better to go in and find out what's going on and what people are thinking.