Systems are corporate funded mechanisms for increasing efficiency; programs are user funded mechanisms for increasing effectiveness. Programs should generally be charged back… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Whereas Jimmy Carter had aggressively pursued anti-merger activity - the imbecilic case against AT&T was prosecuted under President Carter - Mr. Reagan… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
Investing in a market where people believe in efficiency is like playing bridge with someone who has been told it doesn't do… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about… — Ginni Rometty Copy Share Image
Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Intelligence is an elegance of excellence with an endurance of empathy, efficiency and effervescence of self-reliance with self-confidence besides an effective respect… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a… — John Gielgud Copy Share Image
Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
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… — Herbert Newton Casson Copy Share Image
Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become… — Steve Daines Copy Share Image
From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both… — Anna Louise Strong Copy Share Image
Life in general is all about prioritization. You are constantly evaluating at any point of time, what is more important than the… — Vaishali Kasture Copy Share Image
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Efficiency is a great secret that can drop us right into our ideal life path, but it is a hard one to… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on,… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
Technology is an important element in progress. See, we can always do something better. We can improve water technology, or energy efficiency.… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
We've taken bold action at home by making historic investments in renewable energy, by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget.… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering.… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including… — William Wulf Copy Share Image
Ironically, while many of us spend hours every day using small mobile devices to increase our productivity and efficiency, interacting with these… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing,… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
Energy efficiency should be on the priority list for all home improvement work these days. Canny builders will be able to provide… — Sarah Beeny Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In many complex systems, efficiency, redundancy, and resiliency pull in different directions: More efficient systems, which are cheaper, eliminate redundancies, which provide… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
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