Efficiency Quotes - Page 4

• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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• As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Country, Geography And History, Energy

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• Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Travel, Home

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

  Henry A. Wallace

  People, Fascists, Fascism In America

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• The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

  Herbert Read

  Law, Growth, Balance

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Stars, Texas, Office

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• Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Useless Stuff, Time Management

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• Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, Genes, Inefficiency

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• In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Business, Courtesy

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• If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

  Kelly Miller

  Initiative, Ability, Ifs

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• It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.

  John Stewart Bell

  Believe, Improvement, Failing

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• Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

  John C. Maxwell

  Effectiveness, Survival, Foundation

  John C. Maxwell (2002). “Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know”, p.27, Thomas Nelson

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• Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Moving, Mind, President

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• Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

  Jay Inslee

  Umpires, Goal, Car

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• So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.

  Bill Vaughan

  Opportunity, Natural, Bigger

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• Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Government, May, Input

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• There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Economy

  Address to his Constituents, 1 October 1868, in 'The Times' 3 October 1868

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• Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

  Elon Musk

  Years, Design, Mind

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• Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.

  Ross Perot

  Beautiful, Bigs

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• There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

  Josh Billings

  Two, People, Quality

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• The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

  Northrop Frye

  Book, Technology, Men

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• Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

  Clayton Christensen

  Jobs, Innovation, Disruptive

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• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

  Robert Burton

  Inspirational, Confidence, Ambition

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• Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

  David Seabury

  Energy, Sparks, Plugs

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• Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Play, Roles, Purpose

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