Quotes About Efficiency And Effectiveness

#1. Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

Milton Friedman

#2. A hint of annoyance hardened Sicarius's dark eyes, and Books imagined him thinking, I can't leave for five minutes without you getting into trouble ...

Lindsay Buroker

#3. Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

John C. Maxwell

#4. Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process.

Robert E. Davis

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

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#6. Efficiency is about doing things right. Effectiveness is about doing the right things.

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#7. Change plus innovation equals progress!

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

Francis Ford Coppola

#9. Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.

Pearl Zhu

#10. We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

William McDonough

#11. you clutter my mind
thoughts of you, thoughts of me with you
thoughts that keep me from rest
that ull me to sleep at night
your words are like butter
they're smooth and they're rich
and they make the bitter bits better

Madisen Kuhn

#12. He paused and looked at Frodo doubtfully. 'Have you got it here?' he asked in a whisper. 'I can't help feeling curious, you know, after all I've heard. I should very much like just to peep at it again.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. Progress and motion are not synonymous.

Tim Fargo

#14. Day and night - ruthlessly apply key lessons of mankind such as leaving greed, fear and lust to improve the efficiency & effectiveness of life.

V.V. Rao

#15. The best-known definition of usability is the one from ISO, the International Organization for Standardization (9241-11): "The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use.

Carol Barnum

#16. Think effectively Do efficiently. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. Efficiency is doing the right thing in the right manner, the first time.

Avinash Narula

#17. The priority has to be set for lifting IT and overall business maturity from efficiency to effectiveness to agility.

Pearl Zhu

#18. When it comes to selling stocks, it is plain that nobody can sell unless somebody wants those stocks.If you operate on a large scale you will have to bear that in mind all the time.

Edwin Lefevre

#19. Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.

Curious George Brigade

#20. Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

William McDonough

#21. Country's friggin' dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker.

Jess Row

#22. A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in an annual report.

Pearl Zhu

#23. We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.

Stephen Covey

#24. As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

James Vila Blake

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

Matt Perman

#26. 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

#27. When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

Ellen Gallagher

#28. Excellence nourishes the soul.

Leonard L. Berry

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

Richard Templar

#30. Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear. Why isn't a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some guys from the National Carbonation Council.

Chris Rock

#31. Katie wondered for a moment if part of the reason so many of the young women she knew who had poor self-esteem ended up that way because they had spent their lives gazing at themselves in a mirror instead of being the mirror others gazed into.

Robin Jones Gunn

#32. Effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships around principles; ineffective people attempt to manage their time around priorities and their tasks around goals. Think effectiveness with people; efficiency with things.

Stephen R. Covey

#33. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

#34. The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#35. 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.

Stephen Covey

#36. 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.

Tim Ferriss

#37. Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Peter F. Drucker

#38. We're giving up free range, getting organized, feathering our emotions. Efficiency an effectiveness and all those other pieces of intellectual artifice. And with the loss of free range, the cowboy disappears, along with the mountain lion and gray wolf. There's not much room left for travelers.

Robert James Waller

#39. Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

A.B. Simpson

#40. You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

Stephen Covey

#41. Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria.

Todor Zhivkov

#42. More important than efficiency is effectiveness - getting the right things done. In other words, productivity is not first about getting more things done faster. It's about getting the right things done.

Matt Perman