Business Quote by Bill Gates

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

— Bill Gates

“Paradox of Automation: the more efficient the Automated system, the more crucial the contribution of the human operators of that system.”

— Josh Kaufman

The use of automated technology generally translates into lower costs, freeing up resources for more efficient uses, including lower prices.

— Michael O'Rielly

“While efficiency is important, it is secondary. More important than efficiency is effectiveness — getting the right things done. Efficiency doesn’t matter if you…

— Matt Perman

If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure…

— W. Edwards Deming

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace?…

— Robert Kennedy

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

— Jon Husted

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

— Peter Drucker

Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of…

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Peter Drucker

“Operational innovation happens when a company discovers inefficiencies in a business operation and works to address those inefficiencies through creative solutions.”

— Anthony Ulwick

Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators…

— Clayton Christensen