Quotes About Allocation

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants each serving a town of 60,000 people. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

In the property division splitting couples go through, the allocation of friends must surely be the most painful.

Faculty: The people who get what's left after the football coach receives his salary.

In every society, these resources are allocated unequally.

Half the world's rubber. c. Three-fourths the world's silk. d. One-third the world's coal. e. Two-thirds the world's crude oil. Is it not possible that there is some factor in our system that is responsible for this approach to a national plenty? Perhaps we think it is one thing when it really is something none of us identify. What is this "X" factor, this mystery factor? Is not a search for it advisable?

I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.

The idea of ensuring that federal research dollars should be reasonably spread around is an arguably useful goal. But it should be done per person, not per state.

In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

The genius of the market is supposed to lie in its ability to allocate society's resources to their most efficient uses without central direction. Labour has long recognised that efficiency doesn't always correspond with what is socially optimal or, in other words, 'fair.'

Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.

When the government controls a limited supply, the government gets to decide who gets the vaccines and who doesn't. In some cases, who lives and who doesn't.

If you've decided to market online, the first rule of which you should be aware is the rule of thirds: You should determine the budget you'll have for online marketing, then invest one third in developing your site, one third in promoting your site, and one third in maintaining your site. Most ill-advised online marketers invest three thirds in developing their site, then wonder why they aren't earning landmark profits.

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.

Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.

In a moment of stress, funding may go to systemically-important firms, which could pull funding away from firms not making the cut.

In C there are no data structures: there are pointers and pointer arithmetic. So you have a pointer into a data structure.

I have never been opposed to earmarks.

Large credit guarantees also impede optimal allocation of financial resources and increase moral hazard.

Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision.

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

Setting aside a risk reserve with a 50 percent or better confidence level is called risk containment. When risks are paid for out of this reserve, they are said to be contained.

Let me pose a more general question. What is the cash value of a human life? This question is a disturbing one to ask but, paradoxically, there are situations where avoiding the question may cost lives, and allocating scarce medical resources is one of them.