Efficiency Quotes

398 quotes by 337 authors

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency. — Paul Samuelson
The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue ... and that… — Stephen Schneider
Energy efficiency should be on the priority list for all home improvement work these days. Canny builders will be able to provide homeowners with energy… — Sarah Beeny
Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race ... — William Fawcett
Repeatedly asking for government help undermines the foundations of society by destroying initiative and responsibility. It is also a fatal blow to efficiency and corrupts… — Charles Koch
Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one… — Karl-Henrik Robert
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and… — George Orwell
Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need — Hilary Benn
In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of… — Margaret Beckett
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. — Albert Camus
Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, writing… — Nathaniel Philbrick
While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people. — Stephen Covey
The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental… — R. Stanley Williams
While I wholeheartedly support finding cost savings through efficiencies in all areas of the federal government, including defense, I will resist any actions that would… — Doug Lamborn
The name of the game is efficiency; we have to play that game with our toys and our brains. — Tim Reid
Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of… — Richard E. Grant
In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it. — George S. Patton
National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. ... and the cost accounting of the Pentagon. — Louis Sullivan
Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places. — Dan Quayle
If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects… — Thom Yorke

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