Never let something important become urgent

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.

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.

I feel like I should probably ask you to leave. But I don’t really want you to go. I want you to stay, but I know you shouldn’t.- Hope

Let nothing human be considered sacred. Let nothing human be considered divine.

If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

A responsible person is one who responds.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

I worked for a lot of directors.