Quotes About Efficiency

Peter Drucker once noted that "no institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under the leadership of perfectly normal human beings." Warren Buffet made the same point more pithily: "I only invest in companies which any fool can run, because some day some fool will run it.

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being.

I was a very efficient doctor. I would get rewarded with a lot more patients. By the end of my medical career, I had maybe 2,000 patients in my practice.

I think the bring-your-own-device is the best thing that ever happened to CIOs. Now employees are paying for their own devices.

As we think about the future, one of the things we will do is to make sure PayPal becomes the central part of consumers' lives, how we enable consumers to manage and move their money more efficiently, easily, and less expensively than some traditional ways.

The way we designed self-driving payroll, it ends payroll as an independent system that you're entering information in by hand.

My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.

Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.

I've never liked spending a lot of time on beauty stuff. I have two eye pencils that I use, and that's it.

I'm worth every penny because I'm a complete professional who does her work well.

The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.

I am a laptop boy. People say: 'Where's your studio?' I say: 'It's in my laptop, in my rucksack.'

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.

When you actually get on the field, you've got to work. You've got to train. You've got to learn. You've got to put 100 per cent into it.

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.

Eighty per cent of my time is spent on paperwork, hiring musicians, putting bands together, setting up concerts, and 20 per cent is spent on the music. That's the part that you really enjoy, but you can't afford to spend 80 per cent on your music; otherwise, it's not going to happen.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

I came from a hospitality background and saw that 80 percent of seats in cars weren't occupied most of the time.