Best 164 quotes in «efficiency quotes» category

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

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

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

Systems are corporate funded mechanisms for increasing efficiency; programs are user funded mechanisms for increasing effectiveness. Programs should generally be charged back to users, systems should never be. Allocating corporate overhead to the operating units is simply a mistake.

The analysis in the era of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher was that government was interfering with the efficiency of the economy through protectionism, government subsidies, and government ownership. Once the government "got out of the way," private markets would allocate resources efficiently and generate robust growth. Development would simply come.

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

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

Technology is nothing but an expression of human values. It's not neutral, it's not about efficiency, it's about people's values and their knowledge.

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

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.

The capitalist priority is efficiency of capital and profitability, which is generally inconsistent with protecting the vulnerabilities of people and nature.

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.

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

...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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Good tradecraft keeps espionage routine and boring.

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