“This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.” GivingSelfJoyNaturalWealthSupportProductsFlowProsperityRichesTrue WealthSelf Loving Book:Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts
“In spite of the extraordinary outpouring of totally and partially new products and new ways of doing things that we are witnessing today, by far the greatest flow of newness is not innovation at all. Rather, it is imitation.” WayTodayProductsFlowInnovationExtraordinarySpiteNew WaysImitationNewnessNew ProductsNew Ways Of Doing Things Book:Marketing for business growth Source: Marketing for business growth
“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.” WayWellsCuttingMaterialsProductsPercentFlowLaborDirectWorkersProductionsCustomersProductivityClassicReducingRaw MaterialsConvertingInventoryQueues Author:James P. Womack
“Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.” IfsLooksStatesHelpingMediaProductsCommunicationLike YouPerspectiveFlowCurrentsConsumersInevitableRelatedDigitalMassiveAstute Author:Aaron Belz
“I see almost no change in the price of the composite product that flows through Costco I don't feel sorry for the people who pay $27 million for an 8,000-square-foot condo in Manhattan. So inflation comes in places.” PeopleFeelsPayMillionsFeetProductsFlowSorrySquaresInflationManhattanCompositesCostco Author:Charlie Munger
“The times I've been most successful have been the product of hard work and focus, but there's also been an ease and flow to it that's unmistakable.” Has BeensHardSuccessfulFocusProductsHard WorkFlowEase Author:Michael Lomenda
“I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation.” ThinkingProductsFlowInevitableGoodsRefugeeCounterpartsGlobalisation Author:Kofi Annan