Quotes About Resources

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

In war, resources lead to success: in business, success leads to resources. This is a fundamental difference between the processes of war and competition.

When you are dealing with ghosts you mustn't give up all your physical resources until you have definitely ascertained that the thing by which you are confronted, horrid or otherwise, is a ghost, and not an all too material rogue with a light step, and a commodious jute bag for plunder concealed beneath his coat.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

All plays are implicitly political by virtue of the subject-matter, form, and linguistic registers they contain, and the audience for whom they are intended; all productions are implicitly political because the resources they consume are denied to another play, company and space.

from investigating the German activity there.  The Germans had to be there for some classified reason.  What was that?  It stands to reason and starts to make sense that this trip by our government was of serious national security importance, and was absolutely handled that way.  With all the massive resources used, and

There are enough diamonds in existence to give everyone on the planet a cupful.

Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: ten years and $100 billion.

but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it)...

at least where there is enough, and as good, left in common for others.

and the ore I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others

He was only to look that he used them before they spoiled, else he took more than his share, and robbed others.

the case of land and water, where there is enough of both, is perfectly the same.

Are you a brilliant, charismatic leader with once-more-into-the-breach persistence? Or an egomaniac squandering resources and lives?

I wish every American who out of ignorance or worse curses immigrants as criminals or a drain on the country's resources or a threat to our "culture" could have been there. I would like them to know that immigrants, many of them having entered the country illegally, are making sacrifices for Americans that many Americans would not make for them.

Since the bigger gorillas leave chimps only a fraction of the quantity of food bonobos get, each chimp must fight ferociously to survive, including killing other chimpanzees

Do you realize that the only way you can create excess inventories is by having excess manpower?" he says. I think about it. After a minute, I have to conclude he's right; machines don't set up and run themselves. People had to create the excess inventory.

am suggesting that you question how you are managing the capacity of your plant.

It's not the material that concerns me," I say. "It's the capacity. You see, when the problem that caused the stoppage is overcome, the upstream resources not only have to supply the current consumption of the bottleneck, at the same time they have to rebuild the inventory.

We had physical constraints that helped us to focus our attention, to zoom in on the real policy constraint. That isn't the case in the division. Over there we have excess capacity going through our ears. We have excess engineering resources that we succeed so brilliantly in wasting. I'm sure that there is no lack of markets. We simply don't know how to put our act together to capitalize on what we have.

And it became even more interesting when we realized that we were visiting the same six or seven work centers every time. They're not bottlenecks, but the sequence in which they perform their jobs became very important. We call them 'capacity constraint resources,' CCR for short.

What we know now," I tell him, "is that we shouldn't be looking at each local area and trying to trim it. We should be trying to optimize the whole system. Some resources have to have more capacity than others. The ones at the end of the line should have more than the ones at the beginning—sometimes a lot more. Am I right?

I've got the machines. I've got the people. I've got all the materials I need. I know there's a market out there, because the competitors' stuff is selling. So what the hell is it?