Quotes About Efficiency

#1. Structural dissociation occurs during confrontations with overwhelming events when mental efficiency is too low.

Onno Van Der Hart

#2. 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.

Amory Lovins

#3. Over time, stress hormones from multitasking can damage memory centers in the brain. Focus on one task at a time for better efficiency and memory.

Peter Lawrence

#4. 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.

Jeff Cooper

#5. What I am getting at is that there is a point at which efficiency crosses over into lunacy, and the savings in money or resources cease to be worthwhile in light of the price paid in other ways.

Mary Roach

#6. Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusions.

George Orwell

#7. 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.

Russell L. Ackoff

#8. Efficiency and economy simply do not make good pedagogy.

Paul Lockhart

#9. I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

Doug Liman

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Victor Ponta

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

Walter Dill Scott

#13. 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.

Milton Friedman

#14. There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

Peter F. Drucker

#15. She had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross worker during WWII in Italy]

James Carroll

#16. We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

David Neeleman

#17. Microsoft has a division that studies the way people work, to develop efficiency-improving software. (According to Microsoft's research up to 2007, if you're looking for a technological solution to being more efficient, getting a bigger computer screen is one of the few clear winners.)

David Rock

#18. 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.

John Hutton

#19. Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

Milton Friedman

#20. 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.

J.R.D. Tata

#21. On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.

Karl Barth

#22. We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

Mark Twain

#23. 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

#24. True productivity is not first about efficiency - doing things right and doing them quickly - but effectiveness - doing the right things.

Matt Perman

#25. Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.

James Hansen

#26. Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

Albert Ellis

#27. 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.

Richard Allen Epstein

#28. That one who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day in which he lives, needs to reorganize his life. And the sooner the better, for pure enjoyment throughout life has more to do with one's happiness and efficiency than almost any other single element.

George Matthew Adams

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

Clayton M Christensen

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

Malcolm Turnbull

#31. 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.

Germaine Greer

#32. 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.

Jacques Ellul

#33. I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.

Barbara Boxer

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

Nandan Nilekani

#35. 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?

Joseph Stiglitz

#36. In my terms, "neurocognitive efficiency" is being able to make smarter, faster decisions on the floor.

Stephen Curry

#37. New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.

Frances Beinecke

#38. The Google model of targeted advertising is appealing because it claims to cut down on waste. We need to ask how that efficiency can be brought to creative process.

Jerry Della Femina

#39. 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.

Steve Daines

#40. From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.

Anna Louise Strong

#41. 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.

Isaac Asimov

#42. We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

Zygmunt Bauman

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

Mark Spitz

#44. Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people.

Bryant McGill

#45. I do admire efficiency,' said Marthe. 'But how tedious it can be in excess.

Dorothy Dunnett

#46. We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

Todd Akin

#47. 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.

Travis Kalanick

#48. Concentration breeds efficiency while division brings inefficiency, error, and tension.

Eknath Easwaran

#49. I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

Jonathan Ive

#50. To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.

Bill Vaughan

#51. Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#52. efficiency is doing the job right, effectiveness is doing the right job.

Richard Templar

#53. I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as they seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

J. William Fulbright

#54. The navy is like a socialist country. Efficiency isn't part of the jargon.

James W. Blinn

#55. 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.

William Ames

#56. 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

#57. As far as I'm concerned, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future. BMW, like no other brand, will still stand for vitality and driving pleasure in the future. But it will also represent efficiency and environmental friendliness.

Norbert Reithofer

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

Larry Bailin

#59. I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.

Alex Karpovsky

#60. 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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#61. For a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.

Primo Levi

#62. May suitable doses of guaranteed sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy for efficiency.

Folco Portinari

#63. Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Elon Musk

#64. 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.

Lin Yutang

#65. 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.

Daryl Hannah

#66. 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.

Frances Moore Lappe

#67. 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.

Camille Paglia

#68. Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.

Jack Reed

#69. The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

Gifford Pinchot

#70. 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.

Bob Gill

#71. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt

#72. 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.

Henry Gantt

#73. 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.

Orison Swett Marden

#74. You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state.

Dave Heineman

#75. 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 ...

Eleanor Roosevelt

#76. In the near term, drones, which can operate on a three-dimensional plane, could add yet another layer of efficiency to Amazon's fulfillment centers (where the FAA has no jurisdiction), augmenting the robots already rolling around the floor transporting goods.

Anonymous

#77. We've made a devil's pact, swapping convenience and efficiency for an ever-increasing tyranny of information and choice.

Amy Webb

#78. I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind.

Sigmar Gabriel

#79. As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.

Alberto Manguel

#80. 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.

Ginni Rometty

#81. 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.

Orville Wright

#82. 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.

Peter Roskam

#83. 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.

Satya Nadella

#84. An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and hostile to the principles of liberty.

Alexander Hamilton

#85. Our brains are designed for efficiency, which sometimes expresses itself as laziness.

Tynan

#86. Put on a sweater.

Jimmy Carter

#87. 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.

Charles M. Schwab

#88. 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.

Gina McCarthy

#89. I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.

William J. Clinton

#90. 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

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

George Bernard Shaw

#92. You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.

Ramananda Prasad

#93. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again ...

Graham Chapman

#94. Father made a fetish out of performing tasks the correct way. There was an efficiency and economy of his motions that I always found a pleasure to watch and a pain to mimic.

Pat Conroy

#95. 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.

Shelley Berkley

#96. However, the ability to control attention is not simply a measure of intelligence; measures of efficiency in the control of attention predict performance of air traffic controllers and of Israeli Air Force pilots beyond the effects of intelligence.

Daniel Kahneman

#97. There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

Benjamin Disraeli

#98. It is not the purpose of the universe to get things done as quickly and efficiently as possible. That's a mortal preoccupation, especially strong in monkey mammals, but we all feel it to one degree or another ...

J.Z. Colby

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

Steve Miller

#100. Don't you know alcohol kills brain cells ... any damn brain cell that can't live through a good drunk deserves to die. You're doing yourself a favour, getting rid of all them nonhacking, underachieving ones. I'm working on improving your efficiency.

James E. Webb