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

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

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

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.

Turn your diodes this way and pulse...

We all just kinda did everything we thought we were supposed to do and girls dated the guys they were supposed to and did things with the guys they were supposed to.

I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

I draw whatever hits me.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.