Efficiency Quotes · Page 9

“Overthinking is a natural enemy of efficiency because it prevents us from getting things done.”

— Lilly Singh

I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.

— William J. Clinton

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

— Kelly Miller

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

— Eugene Wigner

Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.

— Steve Jurvetson

The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

— Pope Francis

Dont worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to…

— Steve Daines

In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a…

— Gifford Pinchot

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be…

— Kumi Naidoo

The book says [Lincoln in the Bardo],"I really need this sci-fi device of a ghost inhabiting another person." You say okay kind…

— George Saunders

Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital…

— John Maynard Keynes

The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of…

— Marvin Harris

Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information…

— Burton Malkiel

Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better…

— Bruce H. Lipton

Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater,…

— George Gilder

The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and…

— William Greider

But there's something about the simplicity of Auschwitz... there's just nothing. There's just photographs, there's a room full of limbs, a room…

— David Heyman

Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides…

— William Vickrey

I am a former engineer and I was really excited about the possibility of building better technology to serve humanity. A lot…

— Ramesh Srinivasan

In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency…

— Jeff Goodell

An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended,…

— Ted Gup

“Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people.”

— Bryant McGill

It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.

— Helio Gracie

I personally think 3D Touch is a game changer. I find that my efficiency is way up with 3D touch because I…

— Tim Cook

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

— Anonymous

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.

— Walter Dill Scott

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.

— Daniel Levitin

I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping.

— Rick Steves

The increase in coal production and the efficiency in coal movement are all administrative things that can add a lot to the…

— Chanda Kochhar

The name of the game is efficiency; we have to play that game with our toys and our brains.

— Tim Reid

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

— John C. Calhoun

Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.

— Arundhati Roy

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency

— Gifford Pinchot

You reduce the cost of labs if you buy for here in Atlanta not trying to staff five other labs, ... There's…

— John Turner

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

— Albert Camus

“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all. Peter Drucker”

— Richard Banfield