Inventor Quotes

The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.

I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.

Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices, and staffing.

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

Don't kid yourself. Be honest with yourself. Take your own inventory.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.

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.

In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

Inventors don't have time for married life.