Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.
Never let something important become urgent
An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question.
So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.
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.
The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.
Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave
On average, women need to be asked to run seven times before they actually do. While men, who are more likely to run, usually decide to do so on their own. We should be asking more women we know to run for offices across the spectrum - at the local, state, and federal levels.
Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.
C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.
I just hate that gay role models are supposed to be just like straight people, as if even straight people are like that.