29 Quotes by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

The minute you supply a person with the answers, by that very action you block them, once and for all, from the opportunity of inventing those same answers for themselves. If you want to go on an ego trip, to show how smart you are, give the answers. But if what you want is action to be taken, then you must refrain from giving the answers.

Since the strength of the chain is determined by the weakest link, then the first step to improve an organization must be to identify the weakest link.

What is the real goal? Nobody here has even asked anything that basic.

What you have learned is that the capacity of the plant is equal to the capacity of its bottlenecks,” says Jonah.

Four: Too many wasteful ‘synchronization’ meetings interrupted the actual work.

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

Putting it precisely, activating a resource and utilizing a resource are not synonymous.

Bob comes into the office with a smear of grease on his white shirt over the bulge of his beer gut, and he’s talking nonstop about what’s going on with the breakdown of the automatic testing machines. “Bob,” I tell him, “forget about that for now.

Well, I don’t. Not absolutely. But adopting “making money’’ as the goal of a manufacturing organization looks like a pretty good assumption. Because, for one thing, there isn’t one item on that list that’s worth a damn if the company isn’t making money.