Quotes About Efficiency

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

Subsidising inefficient businesses does not encourage them to become more competitive and means that extra money has to be taken from tax payers for the same result. Inevitably, this reduces the total size of the economy and lowers living standards.

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.

Just because an employee does things differently doesn't mean he or she won't do the job right or as well. If you establish expectations of the goal and the standards to follow, then methodology shouldn't be an issue.

We must commit ourselves to an 'all of the above' energy approach, with a major focus on increasing domestic production and expanding alternatives fuels, while increasing efficiency and conservation standards.

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying.

We tried our damnedest to make it a special entertainment, but I'll admit I'm a contributor to the decline in TV standards.

From a productivity standpoint, you're supposed to reduce headcount on par with declining revenue. If you believe the environment isn't going to improve, you should take a bigger cut to get in front of the problems.

There's so many ways of making product design easier, more efficient, quicker. People are now taking DNA from cows and growing leather. The implications of that, in what it has from a grain standpoint, are enormous.

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

The men who succeed are the efficient few.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.

The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the right men and utilize combined energy

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.

Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.