Inventory 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.

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.

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.

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.

Take inventory of what you have to offer. Place a value on it. Respect it - because if you don't respect what you have to offer it's hard for other people to.

Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory. Remember, time is irreplaceable.

My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.

I asked one retailer, I said, "Let me ask you, are you going to raise prices next year?" They looked at me and said, "Not only are we not going to raise prices, we're going to have to lower prices, increase the quality of the goods, and turn the inventory quicker."

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.

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.

The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?