Efficiency Quotes - Page 10

• The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Thinking, Criminals

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can't see anything green during the day? Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

  Thomas Friedman

  Ocean, Sunset, Mean

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• What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they operate. The next show I do and represent, I will be doing with them all over again.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Honesty, Integrity, Next

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• Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Fashion, Grace, Interfere

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1852). “The Optimist: A Series of Essays”, p.248

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• 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

  Unique, Helping, Plus

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• Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

  Harvey Mackay

  Friday, Monday, Morning

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• There's less wear and tear. It allows the heart to pump with greater efficiency so there's less strain. When we really can feel a positive feeling, that's when the heart's communication becomes the best.

  Howard Martin

  Communication, Heart, Feelings

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• I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy to increase our efficiency, our competitiveness, both nationally and internationally

  Peter DeFazio

  Thinking, People, Back To Work

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• Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do better. Alas, anecdotes are not science. And once Wharton School dissertations seek to quantify the performers, these have a tendency to evaporate into the air - or, at least, into statistically insignificant t-statistics.

  Paul Samuelson

  School, Men, Air

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• New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.

  James Packer

  Order, Cost, Nine

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• As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.

  Alberto Manguel

  Jealous, Government, Skills

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• We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down

  Andre Glucksmann

  Broken, Today, Protection

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• They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.

  Lester R. Brown

  Fuel, China, Standards

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• My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows, these are cogent enough. It rests essentially on the view that the free market is the only safe way of ensuring that productive effort is directed towards supplying what individuals actually want, and in a way which secures the dignity and independence of the worker.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Views, Effort, Heaven

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• If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital is zero, this may be the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Zero, Supposing That, May

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.199, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting economic calculations and creating illusory profits, inflation will destroy this function.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Creating, Rewards, Judgment

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.133, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Size, Profit, Handicaps

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• Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.

  Camille Paglia

  Spring, Mean, Careers

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.52, Vintage

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• I love efficiencies and I love solving big problems, and I love working with people who create efficiencies. I love creating efficiencies in my own life on a day-to-day basis.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Creating, People, Problem

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• A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Powerful, Men

  "If This Is a Man". Book by Primo Levi, 1947.

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• What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Effectiveness, Confusion, Done

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.

  Margaret Halsey

  Military, Civilization, United States

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Fighting, Degrees, World

  "The voice of China ; speeches of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek between December 7, 1941, and October 10, 1943, including some recent messages to British leaders and the British people". Book by Hutchinson & CO., 1944.

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• Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Common, Combination, Idealism

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Distributed print is arguably our biggest challenge as a machinery supplier, as more publishers find efficiencies in transferring print production to remote printers and supersites. But our signature Goss flexibility and adaptability allow us to meet that challenge head-on with relevant technologies, services and expertise that continue to provide customers with an edge.

  Eric Bell

  Technology, Challenges, Signatures

  "Eric Bell is Director of Marketing Services at Goss International". Interview with Charlotte Janischewski, www.wan-ifra.org. October 13, 2011.

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