Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
If you look at our original business model with the verticalized law firm, a lot of these companies that have this kind… — Justin Kan Copy Share Image
This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines,… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Digitally enabled supply chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times. Capital was mobile; labor, less so. Economic activity (production, research,… — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
“Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, which was efficient but also a highly controlling device. There was a problem with the assembly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
When it comes to efficiency and effectiveness, I would always start with effectiveness. I am interested in achieving a certain outcome. Only… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
The analysis in the era of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher was that government was interfering with the efficiency of the economy… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is a category-defining product. Powered by Tegra 3, it launches us into a new era of mobile… — Jen-Hsun Huang Copy Share Image
In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while… — Eric Bell Copy Share Image
Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving… — James Packer Copy Share Image
If we examine the accomplishments of man in his most advanced endeavors, in theory and in practice, we find that the cell… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The rise of the social web promised a new era of personalization for globe-trotting. But like many things born online, as popularity… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Large carbon and resource savings arising from efficiency and renewable energy programmes will be completely cancelled out by the added resource needs… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as… — Harry F. Byrd Copy Share Image
First and foremost, energy efficiency is a major lever for reducing CO2 emissions along all parts of the energy chain - from… — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs.… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an… — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The increase of this efficiency is essentially the problem of the manager, and the amount to which it can be increased by… — Henry Gantt Copy Share Image
If I am running 100 yards, I should be cut. Because then I am getting beat. I do not need to be… — Eric Weddle Copy Share Image
I support adjustments designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of regulation without sacrificing safety and soundness or undermining macroprudential goals. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
“One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the… — STEPHANE AUDEGUY Copy Share Image
Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
