Quotes About Efficiency In Business

#1. The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom; that is precisely what is happening. In a low growth economy, the true meaning of resource efficiency in business and in everything we do is essential

Phil Harding

#2. The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically.

Ali Al-Naimi

#3. It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.

Herbert Newton Casson

#4. 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.

#5. Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

Hilary Benn

#6. The situation as well as them and had shifted her loyalties to the most likely survivors with the business-like efficiency of a bank teller making change.

Anonymous

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

Pearl Zhu

#8. 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

#9. Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

J. B. Pritzker

#10. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Bill Gates

#11. In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#12. The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation ... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

Harry F. Byrd

#13. The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

Merle Haggard

#14. True efficiency is taking some time to be fully first thing in the morning. Rushing isn't always efficient.

Waylon H. Lewis

#15. Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers' own efforts and through their own efficiency.

Charles M. Schwab

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

Pearl Zhu

#17. 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

#18. Build it and they shall come, write it and they shall read .(me), but not the first bit though.

Karl Coates

#19. I'd rather do more with the same, then the same with less.

Justin Greene

#20. The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

Sophocles

#21. Don't we realize we're a business, we single girls are? Every building that goes up in Manhattan has more than fifty percent efficiency apartments ... for the one million girls who have very little use for them.

Gail Parent

#22. Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business.

Samuel J. Palmisano

#23. The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

Richard Branson

#24. Your business should serve specific needs for specific demographics of people. That way, your marketing efforts will be more laser-focused and effective.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#25. Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

Idries Shah

#26. A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

Ryan Holmes

#27. I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else ... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.

Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

#28. Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

Carlos Slim

#29. When logic fails, faith can serve a purpose. Sunaina

Amish Tripathi

#30. 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

#31. If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut.

Donald Trump

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. I find that if I get up and push myself, I get lost in what I'm doing, and I forget about everything else until I stop doing it.

Iris Apfel