Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. — Arthur Nielsen
Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. — Arthur C. Nielsen
Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. — Peter Drucker
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
We can easily run a business with less, although to many people that seems counterintuitive. — Paul Jarvis
The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency — Gifford Pinchot
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. — Henry Ford
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.
Manufacturing all over the world has the benefit of efficiency. — Jensen Huang
The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself. — Phil Crosby
Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage. — Sam Walton
To me, the word profitable means sustainable – able to sustain a business that has a high degree of excellence. — John W. Henry
Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction, you must improve. — Horst Schulze
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
We have very high standards and it works. Our business is wonderful as a result. — Jim Simons
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. — Dolly Parton
When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. — Ken Blanchard
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough. — Garry Kasparov
Excellence is not an act, but a habit. — Marva Collins
The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland. — Michael O'Leary
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it! — Tom Peters
Economic Efficiency Quotes
Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust. — Pascal Lamy
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. — John Rawls
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
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems. — Janet Holmes a Court
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. — John Maynard Keynes
The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical. — E. F. Schumacher
Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting economic calculations and creating illusory profits, inflation will destroy this function. — Henry Hazlitt
Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality. — Mikhail Gorbachev
The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously. — Amory Lovins
Operational Efficiency Quotes
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
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates
Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like. — William O. Douglas
Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat the well enough so they don't want to.
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason? — Simon Sinek
All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development. — A. E. Waite
We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest level...anxiety is a cognitive interpretation of that physical response. — John Eliot
The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects. — Rosa DeLauro
Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources. — Julian Baggini
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
Time Efficiency Quotes
Every baby moves with more ease and efficiency if allowed to do it at his own time and in his own way, without our trying to teach him. A child who has always been allowed to move freely develops not only an agile body but also good judgment about what he can and cannot do. — Magda Gerber
You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life. — Sivananda
Rendering yourself more efficient – either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder – won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all else being equal, the demands will increase to offset any benefits. — Oliver Burkeman
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
If you can outsource something or not do something for less than your hourly rate, outsource it or don’t do it. — Naval Ravikant
Catch fish with one hand at the same time. — Thai Proverbs
As entrepreneurs, we already know our most valuable asset is time, but not every entrepreneur knows how to properly use that time. — Lewis Howes
Either get busy living or get busy dying.
One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow. — American Proverbs
Quickly fetch the water during the rising tide. — Thai Proverbs
When the bait’s worth more than the fish, it’s time to stop fishing. — American Proverbs
Efficiency Quotes
How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful word—a little prayer word—will fill him with music and will lead him into victory. — Kenneth E. Hagin
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. — John J. Pershing
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization. — Ida Tarbell
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner. — Jan Tschichold
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency. — W. E. B. Du Bois
More people would learn from their mistakes if they were not so busy denying them.
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force. — Helio Gracie
The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner. — Claude Nicollier
Banks could issue digital cash with greater anonymity and lighter weight, more efficient transactions. — Hal Finney
Productivity And Efficiency Quotes
Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too. Do not let the org chart get in the way of people working productively together. — Sam Altman
Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment. — Michael Ray
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
No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward. — Shawn Achor
Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation. — Murray Rothbard
And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings. — Sherwood Boehlert
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. — Lao Tzu
All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing. — Akio Morita
Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created. — Myron Scholes
Business Productivity Quotes
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite. — Ronald Reagan
Ideas are easy. Turning them into a successful product is hard. — Jeff Bezos
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. — Peter Drucker
A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great. — Naval Ravikant
Many business owners dream of having their product or service endorsed by a global celebrity. But instead of trying to get a superstar to support your business, try seeking out a local celebrity instead. — Lewis Howes
The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle — Ellen MacArthur
Many business leaders still believe that time on-task equates to productivity. — Matthew Walker
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. — James C. Collins
Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business. — Gary Keller
I don’t know what a business is. All a company is, is a bunch of people together to create a product or service. There’s no such thing as a business, just pursuit of a goal — a group of people pursuing a goal. — Tim Urban
Energy Efficiency Quotes
Deeply promote the energy revolution, strengthen the clean and efficient use of coal, accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system, and actively participate in addressing climate change and global governance. — Xi Jinping
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. — Tony Robbins
You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running. — Florence Griffith Joyner
I think a portfolio standard should go beyond wind, solar and geothermal energy to include renewable energy like hydropower and clean alternatives such as coal gasification, clean coal, nuclear energy and, finally, credits for achieving new levels of efficiency and conservation. — Pete Domenici
Bitcoin is the most efficient system in the history of mankind for channeling energy through time and space. — Michael Saylor
In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal. — Jeff Goodell
Technology is an important element in progress. See, we can always do something better. We can improve water technology, or energy efficiency. There is always progress forward using technology and that's where innovation starts. — Santiago Calatrava
The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. — Ivan Illich
As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy. — Steven Chu
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body - and vice versa. — Denise Austin
Inefficiency Quotes
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. — Theodore Roosevelt
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
To do unnecessary and very long work, to do nothing effective. — French Proverbs
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. — Pope John Paul II
Somewhere in your life, some resource is either being wasted or being inefficiently managed. Find out what it is and improve upon it. Of course, your most precious resource is yourself. Are you using yourself enough? — Mahatria Ra
Inefficient markets, generous returns, raw materials, mispricings, differential skill — Howard Marks
Ride the elephant to catch the grasshoppers. — Thai Proverbs
My own experience from a decade ago taught me I cannot trust the UN. But it is a world body and we have to live with it and tolerate it. But I can't hide my feelings about its inefficiency and its not being productive. — Paul Kagame
Alcohol, sugar, and weed can hinder success for many: while a few succeed despite indulging, countless become too inefficient due to these habits, leading to patterns of mediocrity. — Gary Brecka
Where there are six cooks, there’s nothing to eat. — Polish Proverbs
Market Efficiency Quotes
Investing favors the dispassionate. Markets efficiently separate emotional investors from their money. — Naval Ravikant
I believe the market accurately reflects not the truth, which is what the efficient market hypothesis says, but it accurately and efficiently reflects everybody's opinion as to what's true. — Howard Marks
The Efficient Markets Hypothesis fails because humans are herd animals, not independent rational actors. Thus the best investors tend to be antisocial and contrarian. — Naval Ravikant
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. — Milton Friedman
Blockchains will replace networks with markets. — Naval Ravikant
I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information. — Eugene Fama
Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices — Warren Buffett
In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value. — Eugene Fama
The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn't behave as if markets are totally efficient. — Eugene Fama
The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient. — Warren Buffett
Create flow. Monetize flow. Then add friction. — Alex Hormozi
Two big lessons: 1: Never use a token you created as collateral. 2: Don't borrow if you run a crypto business. Don't use capital 'efficiently.' Have a large reserve. Binance has never used BNB for collateral, and we have never taken on debt. — Changpeng Zhao
You want a business so simple an idiot could run it. Then, run it better than an idiot. — Alex Hormozi
Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy. — Sayings
Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain. — Mark Parker
What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors. — Kenichi Ohmae
Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture. — Apolo Ohno
To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other. — Patrick Rothfuss
The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination. — Peter Chernin
For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood. — Charlie Munger
In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently. — Cedric Richmond
Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all. — Gore Vidal
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
Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads. — John Battelle
Ever notice how your senses are heightened when you are in challenging situations? You're experiencing an adrenaline rush that gives you extra energy.
If you see every day as a challenge, you'd be surprised how efficient you can become, and how much can be accomplished. — Donald Trump
We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind. — Stephen Covey
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent. — Barack Obama
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars. — Kenneth Blackwell
The most common conception of Capitalism is that it is an economic system consisting of privately owned businesses and large corporations that are run for profit. The profit comes from running the business efficiently and keeping the products and services up to date and competitively priced. — Philip Kotler
And it's given me great perspective. It makes me really focused and efficient, which - I was focused before I had babies but I wasted a lot of time. Prior to having babies I thought I was so busy and now I realize just how ignorant I was. — Kerri Walsh
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars. — Ken Blackwell
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
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
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
What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do. — Andrew Forrest
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
When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business. — Pierre Omidyar
A busy person is usually the most efficient because they know how to manage their time. That's something I learned through dancing all through school and all throughout my life. — Lindsay Arnold
The Americans who are the most efficient people on earth...have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on a...conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider more important matters of big business and fornication. — W. Somerset Maugham
I believe always you should have a philanthropic heart inside but business way. Because you have to get things done. That is what scientists tell us how to do properly. Business should tell us how to get things done efficiently. And government should have the good environment and the foundations of researching. — Jack Ma
Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business. — Carlos Slim
Asset management CEOs globally are looking at their business models. They're looking at costs, they're looking at making their businesses more efficient, because they're seeing revenues under pressure all over the world. — Martin Gilbert
People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first because these are so valuable to some people. — Bill Gates
The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of efficiency and accountability, poses a dire threat not only to faculty and students who carry the mantle of university self-governance, but also to democracy itself. — Henry Giroux
I throw a lot more punches than Floyd [ Mayweather]. He's very efficient with his punches and when he throws he lands a very high percentage but he's not exceptionally busy every round. — Chris Algieri
It's businesses versus big government. We don't need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that's exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver. — Sher Valenzuela
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
I don't know if there was really ever a golden age of the music business. Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last. I don't know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn't as efficient. The music industry was more oddball guys who did it for fun and now they are huge corporations that have become more structured. — Adam Schlesinger
Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right now, even while government is busy batching the protection of happiness. — Joel Miller
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