Efficient Quotes - Page 28

• Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

  Jesse Schell

  Moving, Affluence

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• I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

  James Altucher

  Entrepreneur, Trying, Would Be

  "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

  Walter E. Williams

  Dog, Cat, Government

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• Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the rock. It's about being strong and fit but also graceful and elegant and efficient on the rock.

  Chris Sharma

  Sports, Strong, Rocks

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.

  Tom Shadyac

  Walking Away, Hollywood, Needs

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Peter Drucker has pointed out that it is a manager's job to "do things right." It is an executive's job to make sure "the right things" get done. Even the most rigorous eco-efficient business paradigm does not challenge basic practices and methods: a shoe, building, factory, car, or shampoo can remain fundamentally ill-designed even as the materials and processes involved in its manufacture become more "efficient."

  William McDonough

  Jobs, Business, Practice

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.76, Macmillan

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• I have enough muscle already. Now I want to use it in more efficient ways.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Use, Want, Way

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• We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking into consideration our women and the home life made by them, which must be the root and ground of the whole matter. Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Girl, Home, Civilization

  "The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters".

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• It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Keys, Together, Safe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few people experience. They are also quite pragmatic and practical and they make you more efficient at living and working in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

  James Madison

  Government, Safety, Second Amendment

  James Madison (1819). “The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819”, p.379

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• ..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because it is in most circumstances the most efficient method known but even more because it is the only method by which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Individual Effort, Competition, Arbitrary

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• The Epson M-Tracer provides real-time feedback and immediate solutions that help golfers develop a more efficient and powerful swing. This information empowers golfers to improve their swing in an easy and intuitive manner, ultimately resulting in lower scores and more fun.

  David Leadbetter

  Fun, Powerful, Real

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• God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence.
  Corr. Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner.

  Baruch Spinoza

  God, Essence, Causes

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• Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

  Todd Young

  Moving, Safety, Use

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• The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Men, Foolish Man

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• From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

  Jim Doyle

  Cutting, Government, Numbers

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• In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into a state of dynamic disequilibrium and behave quite differently from what would be considered normal by the theory of efficient markets. Such boom/bust sequences do not arise very often, but when they do, they can be very disruptive, exactly because they affect the fundamentals of the economy.

  George Soros

  Would Be, Fundamentals, Normal

  "Theory of Reflexivity". George Soros' speech at the MIT Department of Economics World Economy Laboratory Conference in Washington, D.C., www.valuewalk.com. April 26, 1994.

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• Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.

  Scott Adams

  Writing, Things In Life, People

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• The bitcoin world is this new ecosystem where it doesn't cost that much to start a new bitcoin company, it doesn't cost much to start owning bitcoin either, and it is a much more efficient way of moving money around the world.

  Timothy C. Draper

  Moving, Ecosystems, Bitcoin

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• People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary.

  Larry Elder

  Self, People, Inspire

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• Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

  John Stossel

  Honest, Threat, Company

  "Market Magic: Competition Polices Companies, and It Sure Beats Regulation and Lawyers". www.abcnews.go.com. April 16, 2008.

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• A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Way, Wealth

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.335, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.

  Richard Wagner

  Government, People, Finance

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• The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Order, Entrepreneur, Benefits

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.35, VM eBooks

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