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Faster, Better or Cheaper- Pick Two
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 3:41 pm
by Fordwright
I used to believe that old axiom when I was younger,
then I went to work and learned it was mostly a story for telling customers.
But successful people are breaking that paradigm all the time - Henry Ford was one of them.
General Motors tried to corner the market on automobiles and would have been happy perpetuating that myth,
but Henry Ford was already too big to be acquired by GM, by being the exception to the "rule."
Re: Faster, Better or Cheaper- Pick Two
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 4:59 pm
by Wayne Sheldon
It is called 'efficiency'.
Re: Faster, Better or Cheaper- Pick Two
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:26 pm
by Don D
Amother way to say this is:
We offer three kinds of service:
GOOD – FAST – CHEAP
You can pick any two
GOOD, FAST service won’t be CHEAP
FAST, CHEAP service won’t be GOOD
CHEAP, GOOD service won’t be FAST
Re: Faster, Better or Cheaper- Pick Two
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:01 am
by Rich Bingham
Cuthbert's Model T Garage
Service & Repairs
Motto: "We may not do the best work in town, but we're slow !"
Re: Faster, Better or Cheaper- Pick Two
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:58 am
by Fire_chief
If we can't fix it, we won't.
Re: Faster, Better or Cheaper- Pick Two
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:13 am
by TRDxB2
And having said that......
Re: Faster, Better or Cheaper- Pick Two
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:23 am
by Bills Auto Works
"But successful people are breaking that paradigm all the time"
You are correct Sir! I will add a 4th part to this....The ability to succeed at doing the three listed & still make damn good money while the others "flounder" & are happy to "break even at the end of the year". Unfortunately in doing this we do have to make some sacrifices in our personal lives.
Wayne hit it on the head as well...Efficiency & I will add honesty!
God Bless
Bill
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/thr ... ed.614419/
Re: Faster, Better or Cheaper- Pick Two
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:47 am
by Susanne
This is one of my favorites:
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Rich Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:01 am
Cuthbert's Model T Garage
Service & Repairs
Motto: "We may not do the best work in town, but we're slow !"
Fire_chief wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:58 am
If we can't fix it, we won't.
Sign that should have been on a now defunct motorcycle shop that I worked at for about 2 weeks, and left after doing re-repairs on everything they had worked on for the month before I worked there - "If it's repairable, we can fix that".
Re: Faster, Better or Cheaper- Pick Two
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 12:09 pm
by Fordwright
Bills Auto Works wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:23 am
"But successful people are breaking that paradigm all the time"
You are correct Sir! I will add a 4th part to this....The ability to succeed at doing the three listed & still make damn good money while the others "flounder" & are happy to "break even at the end of the year". Unfortunately in doing this we do have to make some sacrifices in our personal lives.
Wayne hit it on the head as well...Efficiency & I will add honesty!
God Bless
Bill
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/thr ... ed.614419/
So true. My eyes were opened when I worked for a company that won all the contracts the competitors turned their noses up at.
They made great money doing it too. Most of their best employees grew up on farms where they were used to making things work with nothing to work with.