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Definition of Inventory
Inventory

An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business.

To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock.

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Inventory Quotations

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

So a core unique aspect of what Getting Things Done is about, is it deals with the thought process that has to be applied on your stuff before you actually know what to organize or can manage that inventory.
David Allen

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

Once you've taken inventory, you can start to make sense of your runway. But then comes a second challenge: finding the time to do what you need to do.
David Allen

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

Inventory Translations

inventory in Dutch is inventaris, boedel
inventory in French is stocks, inventaire
inventory in German is Inventur, Inventar
inventory in Italian is inventario
inventory in Norwegian is fortegnelse, inventarliste
inventory in Spanish is inventario
inventory in Swedish is bouppteckning, inventarie


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