"Sacrifice" is the surrender of a greater value for the sake of a lesser one or of a nonvalue. ❋ Rand, Ayn (1961)
A sacrifice, it is necessary to remember, means the surrender of a higher value in favor of a lower value or of a nonvalue. ❋ Rand, Ayn (1961)
Selfishness entails: (a) a hierarchy of values set by the standard of one's self-interest, and (b) the refusal to sacrifice a higher value to a lower one or to a nonvalue. ❋ Rand, Ayn (1961)
The disvalue would become nonvalue; activity would give place to passivity, with which it is not at war, save when there effectively is war. ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)
"The goal is to eliminate nonvalue and thus be able to move value through the process more quickly." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Suppliers have improved product flow by as much as 90%, identified and reduced nonvalue-added activities by 67%, reduced cycle time by 60% and reduced work-in-process by $150,000. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Site MRO Purchasing's plan, in fact, has helped to reduce costs of buying maintenance, repair and operations goods and services by about 11% annually-and to streamline processes so that both the buying operation and its internal customers can spend less time on nonvalue added tasks. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"As we moved forward with our manufacturing master plans," says Jim Truog, manager of strategic purchasing at Wacker, "we elected to use VMI as a way to eliminate nonvalue-added labor and waste for our company and our suppliers." ❋ Unknown (2010)
In research they conducted over various periods and across multiple geographic locations, Fama and French determined that stocks characterized as "value stocks" have consistently outperformed nonvalue stocks. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It's really become nonvalue-added because we're leaning over their shoulder, helping them interpret the outcome. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Nor will they care about winning, not in any understandable sense of the word, for in and through the act of destroying and killing and dying, they shall be winning, a sense of life will be born anew within them … Their madness will no longer be attached to any identifiable norm, value or nonvalue - neither money, hate, freedom, or revenge. ❋ Unknown (2008)
• nonvalue creating (from the standpoint of the customer) but currently necessary to run the business (for example, the environmental expert helping the company meet government regulations, Type One muda), or ❋ James P. Womack (2003)
