Best 164 quotes in «efficiency quotes» category

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.

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

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.

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

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

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

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

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

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.

When it comes to efficiency and effectiveness, I would always start with effectiveness. I am interested in achieving a certain outcome. Only secondarily do I worry about achieving it as efficiently as possible.

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

A prosperous and sustainable future necessarily demands responsible and efficient management of our affairs: responsible co-creation.

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.

A Spiritual Warrior looks for the most efficient and effective way to accomplish something -- the most direct way is a living truth.

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

As we more easily get in touch with others, we seem to lose touch with ourselves. We can’t solve all of our problems through others; sometimes, we have to look within, rearrange, and reconsider things from a renewed perspective.

At home I am a man, at work I am a machine.

Birds fly more efficiently than aeroplanes. Nature is the superior engineer.

...certain business leaders mistakenly believe that time on-task equates with task completion and productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was untrue. It is a misguided fallacy, and an expensive one, too.

Determination is the first step of ladder to show Efficiency.

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

Be diligent daily, be efficient weekly, be proficient monthly, and you will be productive annually.

By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, Mikhail Suslov was talking with your senators in the Kremlin. And he said, "In fact the significance of our trade is more political than economic. We can get along without your trade." That is a lie. The whole existence of our slaveowners from beginning to end relies on Western economic assistance....The Soviet economy has an extremely low level of efficiency. What is done here by a few people, by a few machines, in our country takes tremendous crowds of workers and enormous amounts of material. Therefore, the Soviet economy cannot deal with every problem at once: war, space (which is part of the war effort), heavy industry, light industry, and at the same time feed and clothe its own population. The forces of the entire Soviet economy are concentrated on war, where you don't help them. But everything lacking, everything needed to fill the gaps, everything necessary to free the people, or for other types of industry, they get from you. So indirectly you are helping their military preparations. You are helping the Soviet police state.

Dieser Zwang zu Überfluss ist weder effizient für die Umwelt, noch für den Geldbeutel.

Do first what you don’t want to do most.

Efficiency, n. The speed and frictionlessness with which money moves from the poor to the rich.

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.

Efficiency is to do what is effective, achieve high customer satisfaction with less operating cost, and improve employee productivity with good teamwork.

Efficiency is often the enemy of fun. It doesn't have to be.

Economics has made good on its promise to deliver prosperity and democratic freedom to much of the world, but in doing away with the age-old problems of humanity, it has opened up a crisis of an entirely new variety.

Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at another angle and you'll find the solution, besides quite entertaining.

Essentialism is not abotu how to get more things done; it's about how to get the right things done. It doesn't mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

Good tradecraft keeps espionage routine and boring.

Good managers don't set a goal to increase efficiency, but rather an implementation of business process improvements that result in higher efficiency as well.

Having helps you find the best point of application for yourself. It’s a system that lets you achieve maximum efficiency with minimum effort.

How you try is more important than how hard you try.

Good fortune and efficiency are closely related concepts. They help you get what you want more quickly and easily than you would through effort alone.

Governments don't have to be efficient, the less efficient they are, the more money they take from the citizens.

HLADE’S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it.

If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will say everything about it except the simple and fairly obvious fact that it is wrong. Some will call it insane; that is, will accuse it of a deficiency of intelligence. This is not necessarily true at all. You could not tell whether the act was unintelligent or not unless you knew my grandmother. Some will call it vulgar, disgusting, and the rest of it; that is, they will accuse it of a lack of manners. Perhaps it does show a lack of manners; but this is scarcely its most serious disadvantage. Others will talk about the loathsome spectacle and the revolting scene; that is, they will accuse it of a deficiency of art, or æsthetic beauty. This again depends on the circumstances: in order to be quite certain that the appearance of the old lady has definitely deteriorated under the process of being beaten to death, it is necessary for the philosophical critic to be quite certain how ugly she was before. Another school of thinkers will say that the action is lacking in efficiency: that it is an uneconomic waste of a good grandmother. But that could only depend on the value, which is again an individual matter. The only real point that is worth mentioning is that the action is wicked, because your grandmother has a right not to be beaten to death. But of this simple moral explanation modern journalism has, as I say, a standing fear. It will call the action anything else—mad, bestial, vulgar, idiotic, rather than call it sinful.

I don't have enough time. I am being pulled in too many directions. Someone or something is stealing my time. Whether you complain that you are overworked and overextended or you believe that other people, obligations, or competing loyalties are forcing you to postpone or cancel your own aspirations or dreams, you're basically saying one thing: you are inefficient. Yes, it's your fault. It's bullshit and you can change that.