Money Quote by Mary Roach

“What I am getting at is that there is a point at which efficiency crosses over into lunacy, and the savings in money or…

— Mary Roach

“Our aim was not to create profit, but jobs,' Sanchez Gordillo explained to me. This philosophy runs directly counter to the late-capitalist emphasis on…

— Dan Hancox

“The cost of anything shouldn't be worth less than the energy you are prepared to spend to obtain it.”

— Steven Redhead

“Markets weed out inefficient practices, but only when no one has sufficient power to manipulate them.”

— Ha-Joon Chang

“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”

— Aristotle

“Energy is more valuable than time and generosity is better than scarcity.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“Efficiency is nothing without effectivity.”

— Sven Kohlhaas

“We habitually value costs and benefits more highly in the near term than in the future”

— Daniel E. Lieberman

“Priceless is economic illusion. Costless is an economical trick.”

— Toba Beta

“The scarce resource is no longer money. It’s human ability.”

— Geoff Colvin

“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker