Eliyahu Goldratt Quotes

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

It's fine to do movies and say, 'We made big grosses,' but you've got to go back and ask, 'How much did it cost?' and 'Where do you make your profit?'

There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.

My buildings are all on budget.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it', the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

The owner of a company with supertight margins - say, a restaurant, retailer, or producer of commodity goods - would be a fool not to keep a close eye on the numbers. But when I make big decisions, numbers are seldom, if ever, the tiebreaker.

I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right.

Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

[Cost-benefit analysis is used:] ... to produce lofty academic-sounding reasons for endless inaction.

I really don't want the best people at the highest cost.

Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision.

You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.

I don't think my basic business strategy is well known by the public, probably because people think it's too simple. My strategy has always been to try to focus in on a product or service where you can create a dollar of value for 20 cents and sell it for 40 cents.

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.

Our priority has always been to have the lowest cost so we can be comfortable with weak freight rates. A big part of having the lowest cost is maintaining the largest network, and this means growing market share.

Nobody loses money on my movies. I make them cheap.