Inventory Quotes

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren’t supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.
Naomi Wolf

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Jeff Bezos

There’s nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
James Lee Burke

The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
Fairfax Cone

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory… of how we are taking responsibility.
Nancy Pelosi

When the chips are down, life forces you to take inventory and reevaluate the people in your life.
Yolanda Hadid

Curbside is primed to fundamentally change the way people shop – by creating a seamless way for consumers to access products from local merchants – by successfully developing complex location and inventory technology.
Jerry Yang

I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and each evening, I close the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day.
Gabrielle Bernstein

I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.
Richard C. Armitage

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.
Joyce Meyer

Learning how to keep track of inventory and cash flow and creating an income statement and a balance sheet are great skills to learn for managing existing businesses.
Steve Blank

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.
Craig Charles

Finding inventory in the backroom is not always a joy.
Doug McMillon

For weeks I ran through a mental inventory of my closet. Did I want to wear something new – to christen it and forever make it The Divorce Dress?
Faith Salie

Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough chips that we could get them mislabeled. So we bankrupted at least two companies which copied our boards, and bought all the parts but they were the wrong parts, so they’re sitting on all this inventory they can’t sell because the games don’t work.
Nolan Bushnell

CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own.
Richard Stallman

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.
Albert Claude

And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it’s much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons.
Mitchell Reiss

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.
Paul A. Volcker

We want to turn our inventory faster than our people.
James Sinegal

As an intern for Vice President Walter Mondale, I arrived the first day ready to write policy memos and change the world… but my assignment was doing an inventory of the furniture.
Amy Klobuchar

Maps help us in tracking our cabs – if they’re idle, headed for a booking, or in the midst of a trip. With custom systems built atop maps using available APIs, we are able to manage our inventory extremely well, predict ETAs for customers, and optimally allocate the nearest cab to a booking request.
Bhavish Aggarwal

Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.
Michael T. Flynn

In my extensive experience, I can honestly say that Sculpture Hospitality’s inventory solutions are world class and, by far, the most comprehensive in the industry.
Jon Taffer

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar’s worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.
Guy Fieri

 

When I’m not acting, I’m writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.
Dan Aykroyd

Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.
Janet Yellen

I don’t do much more than organise other people’s ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.
Chuck Palahniuk

Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse.
Chuck Hagel

Most of the well-developed world – Australia, Western Europe – they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.
John S. Watson

Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn’t move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn’t room for both of them; and that’s healthy.
Nick Denton

All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, ‘Who am I?’ And I wrote my first book to deal with that, ‘The Ragman’s Son.’
Kirk Douglas

It was Dell who came out with their build-on-demand process, where they are able to keep a zero balance inventory. That means they don’t purchase parts until an order is received. That is a way to greatly reduced overhead, since you don’t need to warehouse parts or overstock parts you may not end up using.
Jonathan Raymond

Apple doesn’t need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting for entirely new forms of publishing to develop.
Virginia Postrel

Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine, via either managed care or large practice settings, is improving by collecting data through electronic records and refining practice based on what works.
Thomas R. Insel

In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you’ll stumble.
Jenny Lewis

I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.
Jack Dangermond

When I started at Bloomingdale’s as a buyer, Alexander’s was a discounter across the street, and every time Alexander’s had something that we had at Bloomingdale’s, we’d have to meet price. I didn’t really want to be in a business where I had no control over my inventory, the value of my inventory.
Mickey Drexler

If you sell a physical product, you have a lot of Q4 upside and unpredictability, but now you have to manage your cash to get to Q4 so that you can invest in building inventory to over-perform.
Brad Feld

O2O and all-in-one systems mean we have to make online and offline inventory accessible to each other. This is complicated both in terms of the technical aspect and in cost. A story sounds wonderful, but if it is too costly, it is not good. Technology has to match business.
Li Ning

I have learned a ton about inventory, co-packing, wholesaling, end caps. All these concepts are easy to breeze by in what I do for a living or assume that there is a marketing manager or specialist in one of our companies that handles that.
Chris Sacca

The creation of ‘Into The Gloss’ took less than a month. Glossier took twelve months and about a million dollars to hire the team, work with the chemists, order the inventory, get an office – you know, the whole thing.
Emily Weiss

Many people have said we just need to add more products. Look at Oracle, look at SAP. Add ERP and inventory or compensation. Add all this stuff. What we realized is we’re the customer company. We’re the front office solution, and our customers would be really upset if we just added a whole bunch of stuff and lost focus.
Parker Harris

In 1990, if I wanted a pair of Calvin Klein jeans I had seen in a magazine, I’d head to the mall, sift through piles of inventory to find my size, try them on, ask the opinion of the often inexperienced sales associate, wait in line to check out, pay, and head home. The process was linear and ripe for improvement.
Kirsten Green

All the particles that we are made of only account for about four per cent of the cosmic inventory.
Priyamvada Natarajan

Bar owners tend to be social rather than operators. Most bar owners do not manage their numbers. They do not have spreadsheets or reports to manage their budget, cost, or inventory. I would say 90% of independent bar owners do not even have a budget.
Jon Taffer

You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else’s agenda. You want to write something that’s poignant and moves people.
Dion DiMucci

At 33 years old, I think any player my age should take time to take inventory and see what their situation is and see how the body feels.
Chris Long

We have a conversation before every season now and we just take inventory. Are we having fun? Can we do things? Can we push the envelope still? Can we evolve the show still? Are people still watching?
Sal Vulcano