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

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.

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.

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.

And the pebbles fight each other as rocks/And my father bends among them/Two hands outstretching up to me/Not that I can hear.

In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.

For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready.