Inventory Quotes - page 2

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself. (James Lee Burke)
Ways to combat stress, such as playing golf before a conference call or taking a break on the beach during inventory, are essential. View quote
Ricardo Semler
I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar. View quote
Guy Fieri
Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about. View quote
Joyce Meyer
[Operating expense is defined as] all the money the system spends in turning inventory into throughput. View quote
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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. View quote
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
[Inventory is measured by] the money the system invests in purchasing things the system intends to sell. View quote
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles. View quote
Paul Volcker
We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth. View quote
Albert Claude
The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising. View quote
Craig Charles
The inventory goes down the elevator every night. (Fairfax M. Cone)
Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted. View quote
John S. Watson
It was Dell who came out with their build-on-demand process, where they are able to keep a zero balance inventory. That means they don't purchase parts until an order is received. That is a way to greatly reduced overhead, since you don't need to warehouse parts or overstock parts you may not end up using. View quote
Jonathan Raymond
And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons. View quote
Mitchell Reiss
Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn't room for both of them; and that's healthy. View quote
Nick Denton
The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need. View quote
Taiichi Ohno
Society assumes that specialization is natural, inevitable, and desirable. Yet in observing a little child, we find it is interested in everything and spontaenously apprehends, comprehends, and co-ordinates an ever-expanding inventory of experiences. ... Nothing seems to be more prominent about human life than its wanting to understand all and put everything together. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
... So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else's opinion, credo's and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up. View quote
Dan Aykroyd
The marketing director in each department reported directly to the department head and controlled market research and sales. More important, the marketing manager was also responsible for new product development, requesting production schedules, and controlling finished goods inventory. View quote
Neil Fligstein
If the resident zoologist of Galaxy X had visited the earth 5 million years ago while making his inventory of inhabited planets in the universe, he would surely have corrected his earlier report that apes showed more promise than Old World monkeys and noted that monkeys had overcome an original disadvantage to gain domination among primates. (Stephen Jay Gould)
Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing. View quote
Janet Yellen
I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward. View quote
Jeff Bezos
Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough chips that we could get them mislabeled. So we bankrupted at least two companies which copied our boards, and bought all the parts but they were the wrong parts, so they're sitting on all this inventory they can't sell because the games don't work. View quote
Nolan Bushnell