Top 100 Quotes About Inefficient
#1. There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
Elliot Richardson
#2. Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusions.
George Orwell
#3. Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!
Amory Lovins
#4. I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.
Deborah Eisenberg
#5. It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.
Virginia Woolf
#6. We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.
James Lovelock
#7. Real life is inefficient, disorganized, and sometimes haffling. It's also messy and cluttered with distractions that obscure the trajectory of story.
Ellen Hopkins
#8. Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all ... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World
Arundhati Roy
#9. What has miserable, inefficient Mexico ... to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?
Walt Whitman
#10. Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.
Kurt Cobain
#11. Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.
Peter Drucker
#12. The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true.
Jeremy Grantham
#13. The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.
Charles Handy
#14. The river has indeed become an inefficient conduit, but the same plaque that plugs this artery used to hold back the flow when it was soil in the hills. Now the land just bleeds when it rains.
Robert Michael Pyle
#15. An investment is tax inefficient if it relies heavily on investment income, instead of its price movement.
Michael Brentwood
#16. Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient.
Jill Konrath
#17. War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.
Jacque Fresco
#18. God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways
Penn Jillette
#19. It is very clear that the present system of innovation for medicines is very inefficient and really somewhat corrupt. It benefits shareholders over patients; it produces for the rich markets and not for the poor and does not produce for minority diseases.
John Sulston
#20. I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell ... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
W. Somerset Maugham
#21. Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work.
Jim Ratcliffe
#22. When the demon was muscling for action she was like the princess in the fairy tale from whose mouth toads fell. The small part of her which remained outside the dominion of her temper stood aghast but inefficient as one after the other the reptiles showered forth.
Elizabeth Goudge
#23. While the ACA's insurance expansions and reforms represent a great leap forward for the U.S., it is also true that when fully implemented by 2018, the U.S. will still have the most inefficient, wasteful, and unfair health insurance system of any advanced nation, even with the ACA reforms.
John E. McDonough
#24. But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
Adam Weishaupt
#25. Multiculturalism helps immigrants postpone the pain of letting go of the anachronistic and inappropriate. It locks people into corrupt, inefficient, and unjust social systems, even if it does preserve their arts and crafts. It perpetuates poverty, misery, and abuse.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#26. Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.
Charles Koch
#27. Plenty of funds have fine long-term returns despite being tax-inefficient and generally costly. But a dirty secret is this: Average, no-load fund investors do much worse than the funds - or the market.
Kenneth Fisher
#28. You wouldn't want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient.
Charles Duke
#29. At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.
Aldo Leopold
#30. Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a jetpack that wasn't a death trap? The problem is that it is going to be so power inefficient. I just couldn't live with that ... it would be as loud as a motorcycle.
Astro Teller
#31. Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.
Ross Perot
#32. There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.
Dustin Moskovitz
#33. I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for every one they made.
Richard Greenberg
#34. The majority of people who claim to be overworked work less than they think they do, and many of the ways people work are extraordinarily inefficient. Calling something "work" does not make it important or necessary.
Laura Vanderkam
#35. Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
Phyllis Schlafly
#36. Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Corrie Ten Boom
#37. Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#38. Humour is often linked to shared experience. Like, a guy gets up and says, "Have you noticed public restrooms have really inefficient hand-dryers?" Oh my God, yes I have, hahaha, really
good point, they should ... fix that. It's good to know that somebody finally gets me!
Bo Burnham
#39. I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em
Will Rogers
#40. An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#41. Plotting is an organic, and wildly inefficient process of trial and error.
James Hynes
#42. Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
Barney Oliver
#43. Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.
Margaret Heffernan
#44. The lack of stringent laws and the inefficient prosecution of
perpetrators have made it increasingly difficult for victims and their
families to get the justice they deserve.
Oche Otorkpa
#45. Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.
Charlie Munger
#46. Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient.
John C. Bogle
#47. Prescriptive regulations, such as telling electric utilities what kinds of coal to burn or what kinds of scrubbers to install on their smokestacks, were not only intrusive, they were also grossly inefficient.
Bob Frank
#48. What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return
every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.
Peter Viereck
#49. Affection conquers all obstacles, and the weakest and most inefficient girl that ever stepped, if she have strong within' her that love which, in all its sacred intensity, knows no fear, shall indeed accomplish much.
Edward Lloyd
#50. The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
Barbara Amiel
#51. To avoid a repeat of this near disaster, the Council of Genres took the only course of action open to them to ensure TGC would be too inefficient and unimaginative to pose a threat. They appointed a committee to run it.
Jasper Fforde
#52. People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.
Justin Rosenstein
#53. When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks.
Nathan Wolfe
#54. The point is the three of you are dysfunctional, volatile, inefficient, and in my way.
Karen Marie Moning
#55. To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.
Richie Norton
#56. Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.
Nick Harkaway
#58. A long time ago individuals looked at life and saw that most people aren't happy. They saw this was obviously an inefficient system. So they combed the universe and found immeasurable happiness inside of us, our spirits.
Frederick Lenz
#59. The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
E.F. Schumacher
#61. Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.
Frederick Lenz
#62. 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
#63. The imagination needs moodling,
long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Brenda Ueland
#64. Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.
James Cook
#65. The waiter arrived and took their orders. When he was gone, Macy added, Besides, my life coach says it's inefficient to spend time with people you're hoping will change, that it's a surefire way to derail your future.
J.D. Robb
#66. The Swiss are the only nation to make the Germans appear inefficient, the French undiplomatic and the Texans poor.
Paul Bilton
#67. The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship
Jonathan Haidt
#68. Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature.
Douglas Rushkoff
#69. I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
Jeremy Grantham
#70. The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.
Joel Stein
#71. Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to believe that the market mechanism can take care of all the problems.
George Soros
#72. My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.
Tony Campolo
#73. We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.
Jeremy Clarkson
#74. The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.
Jon Kyl
#75. War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas Jefferson
#76. Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.
Andrew Evans
#77. Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.
Alexandra Paul
#78. A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.
Annie Besant
#79. You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
Sam Walton
#80. Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.
Stephen D. Krashen
#81. There is no room for being creative in today's business ... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.
Martin Wolf
#82. The city governments of the United States are the worst in Christiandom - the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the most corrupt.
Robert A. Caro
#83. The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.
Mitch Kapor
#84. The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.
Cal Thomas
#85. There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#86. Storm explains, "Joyans find Invierno names complicated and incomprehensible."
I glare at him. Storm and I were going to have a conversation about 'complicated and incomprehensible" versus 'over-wrought and inefficient'.
Rae Carson
#87. Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
Charley Reese
#88. Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
Barry Sternlicht
#89. Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.
Colin Wilson
#90. The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.
Noam Chomsky
#91. An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
James Lovelock
#92. We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
Paul Hawken
#93. No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On the contrary, big governments are inherently inefficient and harmful.
Charles Koch
#94. All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.
Dieter Rams
#95. In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and weakens our economy.
Charles Koch
#96. Every bit of capital, therefore, which is given to a shiftless and inefficient member of society, who makes no return for it, is diverted from a reproductive use; but
William Graham Sumner
#97. Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an easy life. They become weak and inefficient when they cease to struggle. Some need a series of defeats before developing the strength and courage to win a victory.
Victorio
#98. We give our time away all day long, to emotions that gain us no advantages, to people who do not value our time, to inefficient habits. If you want to take back this time, you need to cut to the chase.
Stuart R. Levine
#99. Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.
Bernie Sanders
#100. He put an arm around me and helped me across the lawn into the passenger's seat. The inside was red and white as a strawberry sundae, with black analog gauges. It was inefficient and sprawling; it screamed of hubris and excess and obsolescence; it was America on wheels.
Mishell Baker
