Inventory Quotes

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

  Taiichi Ohno

  Needs, Company

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• Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Business, People

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

  James Lee Burke

  Rejects You, Rejection, Rejected

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

  Bill Gates

  Doors, Evening, Walks

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• Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

  Jeff Bezos

  Needs, Backwards, Kindles

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• 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. Goldratt

  Goal, Measurement, Isolation

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.84, Routledge

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• 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.

  Jeff Bezos

  Skills, Two, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Nancy Pelosi

  People, Offers, Hard

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

  Dave Chappelle

  Important, What's Important

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• A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

  Albert Einstein

  Drinking, Alcohol, Bartender

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• If we don't take inventory every once in a while and give thanks to God for the great things He has done for us, we get totally out of perspective.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Remember, Commodity, Stolen

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

  Jack Canfield

  Kids, Honest, Being Honest

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• A good rule in organizational analysis is that no meeting of the minds is really reached until we talk of specific actions or decisions. We can talk of who is responsible for budgets, or inventory, or quality, but little is settled. It is only when we get down to the action words-measure, compute, prepare, check, endorse, recommend, approve-that we can make clear who is to do what.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Decision, Mind, Quality

  Joseph M. Juran (1964). “Managerial breakthrough: a new concept of the manager's job”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• 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

  Responsibility, Energy, Rooms

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

  Adam Savage

  Geek

  "Trading cards profile a geek a week for an entire year" by Ann Hoevel, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2010.

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• 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.

  Paul Volcker

  Business, Thinking, May

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Save Me

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.143, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.

  Anne Taintor

  Jobs, Hard Work, Long

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• Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions.

  Gerald Lawson Sittser

  Loss, Opportunity, Priorities

  Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.65, Zondervan

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• Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.

  Sara Genn

  Creative, Fearless, Curiosity

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• Intentional living is the bridge to significance. At the end of every year, I take time out to reflect and evaluate the events of the previous year - what went well and what needed improvement. From that inventory, I lay out my next year - how I intend to live, make the best use of time and maximize adding value to others. Success asks, 'How can I add value to myself?' Significance asks, 'How can I add value to others?' It is your intention that lends itself to significance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Years, Bridges, Adding Value

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from May 14, 2015

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• 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

  Dark, Sometimes, Extremely Funny

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• To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Past, Giving

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.19, Best Books on

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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 Yellen

  Practice, Way, Credit

  "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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