"The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need." Taiichi Ohno
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." Carl Jung,
"We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it." Jim Barksdale
“The goal is to hit the sweet spot of maximum value optimization, where foolish risk is balanced against excessive caution.” Steven J. Bowen
"Anytime there's a disruption in the supply chain, any time people cut back on spending, there will be a recession." Trish Regan
"The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity." Balaji Srinivasan
“Operations keeps the lights on, strategy provides a light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.” Joy Gumz
Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history. - Niall Ferguson
“Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it’s the lifeblood of business.” Sir Richard Branson
"You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality." Karl Albrecht
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as feasible and necessary to resolve it." - Rene Descartes
"Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings." Diane Garnick
"Every deficiency is rooted in the violation of some principle of good management." Larry Sawyer
“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.” – Dave Ramsey
"If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it." Peter Drucker
“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” Charles Darwin
“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.” Sanhita Baruah
“Nobody sets out to create a mission critical spreadsheet, they ‘just happen’." Felienne Hermans
"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere." Lee Laococca
"The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln
"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself." Peter Drucker
“Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell." Seth Godin
“If you don’t give the market the story to talk about, they’ll define your brand’s story for you.” David Brier
“The three main objectives of investors are: (1) Capital conservation, or stability of market value of invested principal; (2) Liberal income at a fixed rate; and (3) Capital growth.” T. Rowe Price
Only accountants can save the world – through peace, goodwill and reconciliations
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” Abraham Lincoln
"An organisation's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage." Jack Welch
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point." Henry Mintzberg
"Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all." Peter Drucker
“The only way to change someone’s mind is to connect with them from the heart.” Rasheed Ogunlaru.
"Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet" - Henry Mintzberg.
“Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...” José N. Harris
"The Most Dangerous Kind of Waste is the Waste we don't Recognise." Shigeo Shingo,
"Don’t try to tell the customer what he wants. If you want to be smart, be smart in the shower. Then get out, go to work and serve the customer!" - Gene Buckley - Anna Segova
“One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment…; if it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.” Ken Robinson
“Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behaviour as well as business culture.” Pearl Zhu
Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.
Get in touch with us or Find an office closest to you
