Quotes About Effectiveness

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

Said another way, the Entrepreneurial Model has less to do with what's done in a business and more to do with how it's done. The commodity isn't what's important—the way it's delivered is. When The Entrepreneur creates the model

it's not the commodity or the work itself that is important. What's important is the business: how it looks, how it acts, how it does what it is intended to do.

The value of your Equity is directly proportional to how well your business works. And how well your business works is directly proportional to the effectiveness of the systems you have put into place, upon which the operation of your business depends.

Nos decimos que, como todo este condicionamiento es lo habitual, para desarrollarnos, para ser más efectivos, para ser mejores personas, para ser más humanos, lo que debemos hacer es desarrollar hábitos mejores. Voilà! En lugar de intentar despertarnos, la solución es dormir mejor. Es un problema muy complejo. Puede pasar cualquier cosa. Por un lado, le he dicho que le voy a proporcionar una receta, un esquema, para lograr el éxito empresarial.

if the therapy works as it's supposed to, there won't be a lot of repeat business.

In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

The most productive employees, from my experience, are those who go home at 5:30 P.M. but are hyperfocused at work. People can only think really hard for six to eight hours a day.

Our battle over the size of the state overlooks a problem that is just as important and that may be easier to muster the collective will to resolve: how effective government is, regardless of its scale.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

It's mind-blowing how cheap and effective masks are. This is a little hard to admit, because the power of inventing things is so central to my worldview, but it's true: We may never devise a cheaper, more effective way to block the transmission of certain respiratory viruses than a piece of inexpensive material with a couple of elastic straps sewn onto it.

Early failure is usually better than early success, because the lesson in humility lasts a long time and makes you more effective over the long term.

Looking ahead to the time when our children will be independent from us can help us decide how we can be the most effective during the middle school years. This requires asking ourselves not only, "Is what I'm doing working?" but also, "What am I teaching my child?" Think of it as taking the long view of parenting.

One hour of work in peace and quiet is worth two hours in the office when other people are there, meetings are happening, and you're distracted.

Being Fair and Consistent is the Hallmark of Effective and Non-discriminating Policies. If you are going to set up rules that all have to abide by, then you have to enforce it to all. Or it becomes targeting and discriminating. For consumer brands, it means you lose your integrity as a brand. You lose your effectiveness to keep the loyalty of your vendors, authors, and partners. - Strong by Kailin Gow

One competent go-getter is worth One Hundred incompetent do-nothings. - Kailin Gow, On Hiring a Winning Team

How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.

You're a smart person. You're going to figure out where you can be more effective and more efficient with your own resources, and that's going to put more of an investment and emphasis on your future.

The science doesn't prove Common Core's effective. So I guess what I mean is science is an essential part of any decision-making process, and so is public involvement. And in the long-term, you lose legitimacy and power if you don't directly engage with the public.

You are given certain skills, and if you don't use them effectively, you are being irresponsible.

In Italy they judge you above all on your efficiency.