Efficiency Quotes
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If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.
William S. Burroughs
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I sit there marveling that we’re going to reduce the efficiency of some operations and make the entire plant more productive.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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I feel like there's a lot of experience I have from doing TV animation that would be especially useful doing an animated film in terms of some efficiencies of the process that are necessary for TV, just because you have to crank out material every week, that could be applied to film.
David X. Cohen
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Businesses generally deal with minimum wage increases by finding efficiencies in their business practices or slightly increasing prices if they have to, not cutting jobs. Of course: because they need staff to make their businesses run!
David Rolf
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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.
Elizabeth Rogers
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What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they operate. The next show I do and represent, I will be doing with them all over again.
Bernie Brillstein
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
Stephen Covey
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
Stephen Covey
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Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race.
William Fawcett
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In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.
Georges St-Pierre
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Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.
Steve Daines
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At the end of the day, saving money is really about efficiency. You simplify your life, and its overall quality inevitably gets better.
Elizabeth Rogers
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Efficiency obliterates identity
William Greider
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One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely phantom profits. They are artifacts of currency devaluation, not an increase in efficiency or production of goods and services.
Charles Hugh Smith
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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.
Keith E. Idso
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Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.
Seth Godin
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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency.
Plato
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Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them - and so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem, because we live in the same ecosphere.
Karl-Henrik Robert
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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.
Russell Baker
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I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.
Theresa May
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Efficiency, Peter said, is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.
Bob Buford
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So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.
Bill Vaughan
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If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.
Steven Chu
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Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.
Seth Godin