Efficiency Quotes

Efficiency is anything that scores.

— Bruce Lee

“Put on a sweater.”

— Jimmy Carter

Efficiency is the golden word for me.

— Wendie Renard

“efficiency requires collaboration.”

— Liz Wiseman

Laziness is the mother of efficiency

— Marian Propp

Activity is not output.

— Andy Grove

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

— David Dunham

Efficiency obliterates identity

— William Greider

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

— Don Roff

“What saves us is efficiency—the devotion to efficiency.”

— Joseph Conrad

“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”

— Herman Melville

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

— Bob Edwards

Location is all about the efficiency of work for me.

— Michelle Grabner

“Time is currency. Be careful how you spend it.”

— Byron L. Reeder

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

— Henry A. Wallace

What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

— David Cameron

“She got herself widowed, divorced, married, and pregnant – all in ten days’ time.”

— Betty Smith

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

— Aldous Huxley

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

— Helmut Jahn

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

— Stephen Covey

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

— Peter Drucker

I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied.

— Susan Brooks

Technology has brought productivity and efficiency to nearly every sector of the economy.

— Jon Husted

Being positive in the hard times of life will help you to overcome it sooner and effectively than being negative about it.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates,…

— Ben Bernanke

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got…

— Jay Inslee

The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not…

— Milton Friedman

In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing…

— Clayton M. Christensen

With the huge benefits of investing in renewables, energy efficiency and demand reduction becoming ever more obvious, it's clear that there needs…

— Caroline Lucas

Efficiency, connectivity and productivity are all economic buzzwords that people have said high-speed rail will deliver. But at the heart of it…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted…

— Alberto Manguel

We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the…

— David Neeleman

A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful…

— Walter Lippmann

To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of…

— John Dewey

The important issue is not how much inequality there is but how much opportunity there is for individuals to get out of…

— Milton Friedman

It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This…

— Raymond Geuss

The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of…

— Henry Giroux

I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched…

— Murray Bookchin

Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford…

— Peter Welch

When guys feel like it's a contract year so you're forcing, you're stressing, you're trying to do that, what I try to…

— Jared Dudley