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Quotes from The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement — Eliyahu M. Goldratt

1947–2011 Israel

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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)

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)

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