Efficiency Quotes

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Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation. — Murray Rothbard
Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty… — Joe Abercrombie
Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most… — Tim Ferriss
Workers for Christ are never to think, much less to speak, of failure in their work. The Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things;… — Ellen G. White
There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of… — Ivan Illich
Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge,… — George Gilder
I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary concern is with wealth transferred… — Gordon Tullock
How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a… — Kenneth E. Hagin
Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health,… — Orison Swett Marden
The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayersâ€™ money. It is that many… — David Boaz
The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a… — James Fallows
I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to… — Phyllis McGinley
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 the work over… — Kathy Reichs
Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency. — Vance Havner
Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating… — Richard Pascale
When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the… — Gina McCarthy
Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how… — Gina McCarthy
Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills.… — Peter Welch

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