Quotes About Efficiency

There are lots of things one can criticise about the European parliament, but it does work pretty well in terms of the speed with which you can vote, the fact that there's room to sit, the fact that there are offices when you arrive.

Use your assets in the right areas. Commit to outside speed. Don't always go into the junk pile in the middle of the ice when there are eight guys there.

Speed is always good, speed always kills. That's the type of offenses I've been in anyway. That's a good thing.

In the case of Comcast, we're taking a lot of our technology into the cloud, so you don't need a new box every time you want to innovate. And it's all speeding up.

I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

The government should urgently speed its adoption of AI to reduce the amount of time individuals spend unnecessarily interacting with the government and increase the speed of government response to citizens.

When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.

When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.

When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what's important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.

I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.'

Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.

Spending time chasing the puck around your own end isn't really a good recipe for success.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.

If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

I have a lot of energy, and if I don't keep myself busy, I go crazy. I alphabetise the spice rack, separate the Lego from the Playmobile, colour-code the knicker drawers - it's scary! My house loves it when I'm working so the linen cupboard can get a rest. I just don't sit around.

Spielberg shoots with one camera. The Coens, and I think this is right, maybe discarded one shot on 'No Country for Old Men.' That's something you want to aspire to, because nothing's out of place. Everything's necessary.