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Eliyahu M. Goldratt Quotes

1947–2011 Israel

Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt (March 31, 1947 – June 11, 2011) was an Israeli physicist who became a business management guru

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My system does not make sense at all, but by God it’s working.

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

The Haystack Syndrome (1990)

There are three measurements which express the goal of making money perfectly well, but which also permit you to develop operational rules for running your plant. Their names are throughput, inventory and operational expense.

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (1984)

Fundamentally, a manager is looking to answer these questions: ‘what to change?’,’ what to change to?’ and ‘ how to cause the change?’

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (1984)

[Operating expense is defined as] all the money the system spends in turning inventory into throughput.

The Haystack Syndrome (1990)

[Inventory is measured by] the money the system invests in purchasing things the system intends to sell.

The Haystack Syndrome (1990)

[Throughput is the] rate at which the system generates money through sales.

The Haystack Syndrome (1990)

If the goal is to make money, then (putting it in terms Jonah might have used), an action that moves us toward making money is productive. And an action that takes away from making money is non-productive.

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (1984)

Companies are so immersed in the mentality of saving money that they forget that the whole intention of a project is not to save money but to make money.

Critical Chain (1997)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eliyahu M. Goldratt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.