Quotes About Efficiency

I'm still an engineer at heart. So if I can automate conversations that I find myself keep having to have, it seems like a good opportunity for me.

Running-between-the-wickets is the ability to convert ones into twos, twos into threes, and threes into fours. And to reach the wickets on time.

I remain convinced of the compelling case for connected care.

My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.

I always cooperate to complete a film within the budget. Not a single film of mine has overshot its budget.

Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it.

When I drive there is not much emotion in there. I'm just trying to get everything right and get every lap, every corner perfect.

If you have six corporate centres, six treasuries, six of everything, and then if you bring it down to one of everything, obviously there are some savings.

I think there's a correlation between mechanically being in the right place and the body moving the correct way to more balls being in the air, whether it's line drives or fly balls.

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

The cost to do business in Australia is higher, and the lack of scale is a part of that - Australia is a very small market compared to the U.S.

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.

The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.

A boss is all about good business, so start with everything that you can control and you can turn up that costs you nothing, then lay all the knobs out, look at all the controls, all the remotes, and just turn them all up. It don't cost you nothing.

No one will use the new Internet if it's slow, costs money and doesn't scale.

The things that we're going to be able to do are going to take many, many years to achieve our end goal, which is to really lower costs in the industry by working with our interests better aligned with the teams, that's number one, which will affect their values going forward.

'You Can Count On Me' took 20 days to shoot, and we had 50 days to shoot 'Margaret.'

My fouls used to be ticky-tacky, but I learned real fast to make them count.

I've got to keep my pitch count down. If you want to go deep into ballgames, you have to stay under that 100 mark.

Strikeouts are something that just happen. You don't go for strikeouts, because your pitch count gets too high. When you do get that opportunity, you have to put them away with whatever is working that day.

Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they get in and leave is how amateurs run companies.

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

Everybody manages differently and as far as I'm concerned the results are the only thing that counts.

Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life.