quotes about Inventory
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
-- Adam SavageSource : "Trading cards profile a geek a week for an entire year" by Ann Hoevel, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2010.
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In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.
-- Alan Blinder -
Think about it: everybody you know, everyone that you meet, also know about 250 people. So every time you cultivate a relationship with one new person, you have actually expanded your personal inventory by 250 people - every single time.
-- Bob Burg -
Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.
-- Bruce Lee -
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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.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
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.
-- Craig Charles -
Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.
-- Dave Chappelle -
For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.
-- David Dunn -
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The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.
-- David Lereah -
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.
-- Eliyahu M. Goldratt -
The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.
-- Eliyahu M. GoldrattSource : Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.84, Routledge
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Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list ...
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
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The cookbook gives a detailed description of ingredients and procedures but no proofs for its prescriptions or reasons for its recipes; the proof of the pudding is in the eating. ... Mathematics cannot be tested in exactly the same manner as a pudding; if all sorts of reasoning are debarred, a course of calculus may easily become an incoherent inventory of indigestible information.
-- George Polya -
The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.
-- Greg Egan -
There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
-- James Lee Burke -
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Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.
-- Janet YellenSource : "The Outlook for the Economy and Monetary Policy". Janet Yellen's Remarks at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California, www.frbsf.org. February 22, 2010.
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Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.
-- Jason Epstein -
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.
-- Juan Gabriel -
Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in previous years.
-- Kyle Cooper -
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We can always create more inventory. You don't just turn people away. The challenge is finding new ways to accommodate people.
-- Mark Richardson -
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.
-- Nancy Pelosi -
Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward.
-- Pascal BrucknerSource : Pascal Bruckner (2011). “Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy”, p.19, Princeton University Press
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The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
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The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.
-- Taiichi Ohno -
Converting a classic batch-and-queue production system to continuous flow with effective pull by the customer will double labor productivity all the way through the system (for direct, managerial, and technical workers, from raw materials to delivered product) while cutting production throughput times by 90 percent and reducing inventories in the system by 90 percent as well.
-- James P. Womack -
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."
-- Ken Moelis -
There's just not a lot of inventory, and to find a shortstop or a catcher, or a centerfielder, that you think that could stay at those positions... they're very hard to acquire. Sometimes you have to overpay for them, because of that lack of inventory.
-- Kevin TowersSource : "Q&A: Kevin Towers, Diamondbacks GM". Interview with David Laurila, www.fangraphs.com. December 26, 2012.
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