Quotes About Efficiency

In TV, it is important to get everything on film as fast as possible. You rehearse every day of the week, and each day, the performance may be changed. The process is more result-oriented than in the movies. It's more about working quickly.

I like to rehearse to the point we're in the ballpark, and expect that we're only going to get one proper take, more or less.

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

I've never liked rehearsing too much.

I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing.

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.

I don't entirely reject the idea of efficient markets. It needs updating.

Middle-out economics rejects the old misconception that an economy is a perfectly efficient, mechanistic system and embraces the much more accurate idea of an economy as a complex ecosystem made up of real people who are dependent on one another.

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

If one committee controlled your entire budget, I think you might make some effort to build up personal relationships. I think it is a no-brainer.

My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid.

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

The economic model was formed by the constraints that I had: a small space, relatively inexpensive building materials, relatively inexpensive investment, a very efficient service line or assembly line.

What I need to do is relax, take my time, and make my shots count. That will give me more energy later in the fights but also allow me to throw the punches harder.

I don't know how to relax. I get so edgy and instantly I'm ready to go. I don't like to waste any time. I try to use up every minute until I get tired, and then go home, rest for an hour, and then go. But I don't ever actually relax.

If I was as relaxed as what I perceived myself to be, I would not be able to multi-task the way I multi-task.

In the future, we'll be working and relaxing in cars.

I've got a good, quick release.

'Balls of Fury' was a 45-day shoot when it probably - hindsight being 20/20 - probably should've been a 75-day shoot with all the ping-pong action.

The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.

You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.