Efficiency Quotes · Page 11

When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are…

— Linda Stone

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.

— Dennis Holme Robertson

The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed…

— Guy Endore

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end…

— George Bernard Shaw

National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. ... and the cost accounting…

— Louis Sullivan

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

— Henry Giroux

Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and…

— Seth Godin

Activity is not output.

— Andy Grove

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all…

— William Ames

Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with…

— Harvey Mackay

There's less wear and tear. It allows the heart to pump with greater efficiency so there's less strain. When we really can…

— Howard Martin

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if…

— Sherwood Boehlert

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question…

— John Sununu

Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the…

— Peter W. Huber

The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into…

— Amity Shlaes

I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.

— Eugene Fama

Since the dawn of civilization, markets have been ubiquitous. Many of us have benefited from their focus and efficiency. Yet two widely…

— Howard Gardner

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because…

— Clement Greenberg

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical…

— Thorstein Veblen

We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate people are living far below capacity, and that most human beings develop…

— Julian Huxley

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

— John C. Maxwell

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get…

— Kathy Reichs

I feel like there's a lot of experience I have from doing TV animation that would be especially useful doing an animated…

— David X. Cohen

The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in…

— Adolf Hitler