Quotes About Efficiency

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

If you define the goal of a society as GNP, that society will do its best to produce GNP. It will not produce welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency unless you define a goal and regularly measure and report the state of welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency.

Everyone understands that you can prolong the life of an oil-based economy by discovering new oil deposits. It seems to be harder to understand that the same result can be achieved by burning less oil. A breakthrough in energy efficiency is equivalent, in its effect on the stock of available oil, to the discovery of a new oil field—although different people profit from it.

we sometimes miss seeing that we can fill a bathtub not only by increasing the inflow rate, but also by decreasing the outflow rate.

Growth of what? For whom? At what cost? Paid by whom? What is the real need here, and what is the most direct and efficient way for those who have that need to satisfy it? How much is enough? What are the obligations to share?

Hierarchies are brilliant systems inventions, not only because they give a system stability and resilience, but also because they reduce the amount of information that any part of the system has to keep track of.

But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.

DONNA: Why do traditional organizing solutions and tools not work for them?

Form a clear picture of what you want (which could include more free and leisure time). 2. Identify, eliminate, or reduce fears, beliefs, or doubts that block you. 3. Get rid of the time-wasters and energy-drainers from your life. 4. Strengthen your intuitive and spiritual communication skills so you'll know how to fulfill your goals. 5. Use short chunks of time to make steady progress toward these desires.

When failure comes about through devoting precious hours to time-killing pursuits, we can all see that energy is being diverted from its proper channel.

She thinks in a straight line," said Tsanko. "There are no detours in this woman.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Don't fucking work hard, dummy, you die at the end! Didn't anyone tell you?

Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

great scientists invented technologies to achieve their goals, but never failed to modify existing technologies to suit their needs whenever possible. Why reinvent the wheel when there was so much else that needed to be done?

If I would have had more time, I'd have written you a shorter letter.

Additional manpower doesn't always speed things up," said Kelly. "Yes, perspiration is important. But it's also true that nine women can't have a baby in a month.

When you have to do an activity consciously, you are slow and inefficient. Unconscious subroutines programmed in are just the opposite, fast and efficient. But in many cases, learned activities that become part of your unconscious wiring can no longer be accessed by your conscious mind.

It would be faster," said Boyd, "but more conspicuous

Energy is wealth. The two are one and the same. Think about how much money the world spends each year on power.

played across her face. "It's like that famous quote, 'If I would have had more time, I'd have written you a shorter letter.