Lean Operations Quotes

...doing more with less.

... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.

Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses.

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.

Outsourcing, information technology revolution, the access to India's human resources, India's pool of scientists. It will help American companies to become leaner, meaner, more efficient, and they become more competitive, both in the United States and in dealing with the rest of the world.

We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.

Xerox's innovative technology and service offerings - delivered through an expanding distribution system with a lean and flexible business model - continue to solidify our market leadership, driving consistently strong earnings performance.

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

I continue to be a believer in a standard-based industry, where your lean cost structure is a huge advantage.

Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.

There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.

We're trying to build the largest start-up ever without becoming a big company.