The Goal

The Goal
Eliyahu M Goldratt

“A bottleneck, Jonah continues, is any resource whose capacity is equal to or less than the demand placed upon it. And a non-bottleneck is any resource whose capacity is greater than the demand placed on it.”
pg. 138

“…when I was a physicist, people would come to me from time to time with problems in mathematics they couldn’t solve. they wanted me to check their numbers for the, But after a while I learned not to waste my time checking the numbers – because the numbers were almost always right. However, if I checked the assumptions, they were almost always wrong.”
pg. 157

“Well, it’s true. Now we are winning. But the struggle isn’t over. It never ends. it just continues on a greater order of magnitude.”
pg. 265

“If I were to just tell you the answers I know, all you would get is an earful of advice. But if you discover the answers for yourself, then you own those answers. They’ll be yours to keep, and you’ll believe in them much more because you found them yourself.”
pg. 269