Quotes about Efficiency

There can be economy only where there is efficiency. Votes: 4

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. Votes: 4

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. Votes: 4

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. Votes: 4

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Votes: 4

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity. Votes: 4

Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side. Votes: 4

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Votes: 4

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry. Votes: 4

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Votes: 4

Efficiency obliterates identity Votes: 3

Efficiency is intelligent laziness Votes: 3

Efficiency is anything that scores. Votes: 3

Efficiency was a higher priority than imagination. Votes: 3

Efficiency and focus are the keys to success. Votes: 3

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success. Votes: 3

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things. Votes: 3

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler. Votes: 3

Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of available jobs. Votes: 3

The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. Votes: 3

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?' Votes: 3

The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens. Votes: 3

The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income. Votes: 3

Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework. Votes: 3

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation. Votes: 3

Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe. Votes: 3

The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence. Votes: 3

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers. Votes: 3

Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the opposite...efficiency fails to curb demand because it lets more people do more, and do it faster-and more/more/faster invariably swamps all the efficiency gains. Votes: 3

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. Votes: 2

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency. Votes: 2

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty. Votes: 2

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. Votes: 2

Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency. Votes: 2

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business. Votes: 2

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff. Votes: 2

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Votes: 2

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. Votes: 2

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency. Votes: 2

A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power. Votes: 2

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. Votes: 2

Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company. Votes: 2

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency. Votes: 2

No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company. Votes: 2

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. Votes: 2

I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources. Votes: 2

It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency. Votes: 2

No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers. Votes: 2

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education. Votes: 2

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. Votes: 2

The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection. Votes: 2

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life. Votes: 2

The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs. Votes: 2

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency. Votes: 2

If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game. Votes: 2

The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race. Votes: 2

Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them. Votes: 2

Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That's why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It's for the experience. Votes: 2

The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts. Votes: 2

By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well. Votes: 2

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? Votes: 2

Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture. Votes: 2

I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ Votes: 1

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life. Votes: 1

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage Votes: 1

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something Votes: 1

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency Votes: 1

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it Votes: 1

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency. Votes: 0

Don't equate activity with efficiency. Votes: 0

Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness. Votes: 0

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode. Votes: 0

When two forces unite, their efficiency double. Votes: 0

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency Votes: 0

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them. Votes: 0

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. Votes: 0

Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency. Votes: 0

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship. Votes: 0

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things. Votes: 0

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Votes: 0

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success Votes: 0

Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people. Votes: 0

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency Votes: 0

... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience. Votes: 0

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. Votes: 0

What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency. Votes: 0

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key, Votes: 0

Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need Votes: 0

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. Votes: 0

Location is all about the efficiency of work for me. Votes: 0

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method. Votes: 0

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. Votes: 0

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency. Votes: 0

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency. Votes: 0

Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency. Votes: 0

If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would. Votes: 0

Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. Votes: 0

They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China. Votes: 0

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary. Votes: 0

One thing that I learned from judo... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort. Votes: 0

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it. Votes: 0

Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold. Votes: 0

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence. Votes: 0

XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files Votes: 0

How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that? Votes: 0

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency. Votes: 0

We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction. Votes: 0

I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement. Votes: 0

Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places. Votes: 0

The interchange of information is creating a new paradigm for the energy efficiency market Votes: 0

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99) Votes: 0

While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow. Votes: 0

Fiat has a lot going for it in terms of design, technology and efficiency. Votes: 0

Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes. Votes: 0

Let's create jobs by bringing the Shaheen-Portman bipartisan energy efficiency bill to the floor. Votes: 0

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people. Votes: 0

Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency. Votes: 0

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy. Votes: 0

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Votes: 0

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve. Votes: 0

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk. Votes: 0

In my terms, "neurocognitive efficiency" is being able to make smarter, faster decisions on the floor. Votes: 0

You have to understand as a marketer that consumers are functioning in the age of efficiency. Votes: 0

Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency. Votes: 0

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not. Votes: 0

I think we need to prepare for the worst, and so I support energy efficiency measures. Votes: 0

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. Votes: 0

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource. Votes: 0

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war. Votes: 0

Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback. Votes: 0

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. Votes: 0

I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information. Votes: 0

Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process. Votes: 0

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations. Votes: 0

In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent. Votes: 0

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war. Votes: 0

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations. Votes: 0

We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency. Votes: 0

The name of the game is efficiency; we have to play that game with our toys and our brains. Votes: 0

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency. Votes: 0

It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts. Votes: 0

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself. Votes: 0

No vision issue today is bigger than the question of efficiency versus some combination of innovation and customer service. Votes: 0

I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense. Votes: 0

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when working at full efficiency, not unlike myself! Votes: 0

We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy. Votes: 0

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. Votes: 0

There are a lot of new things going on in the microprocessor world, including increased focus on power and efficiency. Votes: 0

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency. Votes: 0

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care. Votes: 0

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right. Votes: 0

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. Votes: 0

My phone isn't "smart" because of its features. I make it smart by maximizing the phone's feature-set toward better personal efficiency. Votes: 0

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare Votes: 0

I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth. Votes: 0

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency. Votes: 0

the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government. Votes: 0

Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force. Votes: 0

So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities. Votes: 0

Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined. Votes: 0

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable? Votes: 0

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent. Votes: 0

Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation. Votes: 0

While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage. Votes: 0

I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping. Votes: 0

Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life. Votes: 0

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work. Votes: 0

There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient. Votes: 0

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal. Votes: 0

Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical. Votes: 0

When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio. Votes: 0

If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority. Votes: 0

The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency. Votes: 0

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics. Votes: 0

Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race ... Votes: 0

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, saving money is really about efficiency. You simplify your life, and its overall quality inevitably gets better. Votes: 0

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it. Votes: 0

Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it. Votes: 0

It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter. Votes: 0

In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies. Votes: 0

More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity. Votes: 0

I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from that background. Votes: 0

Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment. Votes: 0

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come. Votes: 0

While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people. Votes: 0

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade. Votes: 0

There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens. Votes: 0

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency. Votes: 0

We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down Votes: 0

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time? Votes: 0

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business. Votes: 0

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived. Votes: 0

There are many direct biological benefits that result from higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Two of the most important are increased plant photosynthesis and water-use efficiency. Votes: 0

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously. Votes: 0

Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business. Votes: 0

You reduce the cost of labs if you buy for here in Atlanta not trying to staff five other labs, ... There's a great deal of efficiency. Votes: 0

National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. ... and the cost accounting of the Pentagon. Votes: 0

I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector. Votes: 0

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate. Votes: 0

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power. Votes: 0

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior. Votes: 0

You develop a kind of admiration for criminal genius and ruthless efficiency, and you forget that the criminal empire is built on human pain and suffering. Votes: 0

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it. Votes: 0

The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out. Votes: 0

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.... Votes: 0

Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and efficiency reasons. Votes: 0

Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time. Votes: 0

New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs. Votes: 0

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. Votes: 0

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency. Votes: 0

The emphasis of my government is to take advantage from the Chinese experience in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, energy, infrastructure, development, health and high efficiency irrigation. Votes: 0

The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully. Votes: 0

The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency Votes: 0

While combat efficiency is a primary function of Shaolin Kung Fu, a more immediate and useful benefit in our law-abiding society is attaining radiant health and vitality. Votes: 0

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. Votes: 0

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency. Votes: 0

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team. Votes: 0

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid). Votes: 0

While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being. Votes: 0

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance. Votes: 0

Repeatedly asking for government help undermines the foundations of society by destroying initiative and responsibility. It is also a fatal blow to efficiency and corrupts the political process. Votes: 0

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency. Votes: 0

If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats. Votes: 0

It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it. Votes: 0

The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants. Votes: 0

The efficiency of most workers is beyond the control of the management and depends more than has been supposed upon the willingness of men to do their best. Votes: 0

The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy. Votes: 0

Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals. Votes: 0

We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government. Votes: 0

The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives. Votes: 0

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency. Votes: 0

Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing. Votes: 0

Yes, it benefits the planet, but I don't lead with the green message anymore because I think there's a more evergreen way to look at it, which is efficiency. Votes: 0

Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency. Votes: 0

Democrats believe we should renew our commitment to creating tax credits for hybrid vehicles, increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars, and investing in ethanol, biofuel, hydrogen fuel cell technology Votes: 0

For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management. Votes: 0

In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare Votes: 0

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature. Votes: 0

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them. Votes: 0

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services. Votes: 0

The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency. Votes: 0

Investing in a market where people believe in efficiency is like playing bridge with someone who has been told it doesn't do any good to look at the cards. Votes: 0

Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and, for the most part, accurately. Votes: 0

During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable. Votes: 0

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful. Votes: 0

our acquaintances"”not our friends"”are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. Votes: 0

The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency. Votes: 0

We must commit ourselves to an 'all of the above' energy approach, with a major focus on increasing domestic production and expanding alternatives fuels, while increasing efficiency and conservation standards. Votes: 0

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems. Votes: 0

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. Votes: 0

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes. Votes: 0

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation. Votes: 0

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed we are going somewhere. Votes: 0

Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality. Votes: 0

A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter. Votes: 0

Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life Votes: 0

Governments should be role models of leadership and improve the utilization of ICT in all the governmental departments in order to improve the efficiency of governmental services and motivate ICT industries. Votes: 0

As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. Votes: 0

To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary. Votes: 0

The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character. Votes: 0

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power. Votes: 0

There is job growth in renewables, there is job growth in energy efficiency and there is job growth in developing innovative industries and technologies to successfully meet the challenge of climate change. Votes: 0

I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy to increase our efficiency, our competitiveness, both nationally and internationally Votes: 0

The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically. Votes: 0

I can be on a telephone call, and be emailing or texting somebody else, as well. I would imagine everyone appreciates that efficiency of communication. I see it as a huge positive. Votes: 0

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty. Votes: 0

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. Votes: 0

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition. Votes: 0

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity ... Votes: 0

My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody; it's not red or blue. Votes: 0

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable. Votes: 0

My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody, it's not red or blue. Votes: 0

The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects. Votes: 0

As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy. Votes: 0

Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks. Votes: 0

Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases ... If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority. Votes: 0

A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting economic calculations and creating illusory profits, inflation will destroy this function. Votes: 0

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play. Votes: 0

It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law. Votes: 0

Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency. Votes: 0

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power. Votes: 0

Corporate efficiency has led to a nasty trend of filtering resumes for keywords. This might save time, but it ensures that many of the best candidates will never make it to the interview. Votes: 0

Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift and hard work of our people as a whole. Votes: 0

The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature Votes: 0

Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency. Votes: 0

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. Votes: 0

There's less wear and tear. It allows the heart to pump with greater efficiency so there's less strain. When we really can feel a positive feeling, that's when the heart's communication becomes the best. Votes: 0

The book says [Lincoln in the Bardo],"I really need this sci-fi device of a ghost inhabiting another person." You say okay kind of begrudgingly. So the structure seemed informed by need and efficiency. Votes: 0

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.' Votes: 0

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal. Votes: 0

Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly. Votes: 0

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector Votes: 0

The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. Votes: 0

The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue ... and that you need increased supply like ANWR-is two ANWRs worth of energy. Votes: 0

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency... Votes: 0

Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency. Votes: 0

Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity. Votes: 0

We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways to do that are energy efficiency and a switch to renewables. Votes: 0

The increase of this efficiency is essentially the problem of the manager, and the amount to which it can be increased by proper study is, in most cases, so great as to be almost incredible. Votes: 0