Quotes About Efficiency

The first thing I control is the cost by not shooting for many days. It is not control, but somebody has to drive the whole thing. If I shoot unnecessary things, it will raise cost.

A single tax return for Quebecers will eliminate unnecessary paperwork for families and businesses.

It is my goal as governor to steady the ship of state and improve the image of Alabama, part of that entails ending unnecessary duplication of services within state agencies.

Work is important, but you also need to disconnect, to unplug at times, in order to be even more concentrated when you do work.

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

I'm not going to risk our precious military resources on an ineffective, unproductive mission.

There is nothing efficient about firms spurning more productive technologies because years of unrelenting attacks on social safety nets and collective bargaining have created cheap labour in abundance.

We're going to have robots in the home, but they're not going to be walking. Legs are complicated, unreliable and costly. Robots are going to look and be designed to meet the function they're supposed to perform. People will still name them and connect with them.

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

I'm always running up and down buildings or around 800-acre properties for work - you can't do that in heels or flip-flops!

Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to the main's frequency in such a way that, without ever jeopardising the temperature of your butter, they tend to take power at times that help the grid.

Instead of going into the kitchen all the time - I hate running up and down the stairs - I started using my Weber as a stovetop.

The Gmail app is definitely the app I use the most. I am always running from meeting to meeting, so it keeps me up-to-date with everything going on. I actually e-mail more often from my iPhone than my laptop, so having a nicely designed e-mail app is really important.

We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a newspaper for real-time news. That's the equivalent of the steam age.

Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.

Three hours of focused time on the projects that will really add value and uplift your career are so much better than 10 hours where you are constantly being interrupted and taken off your focus.

A boot-camp class that combines upper- and lower-body moves - like walking lunges and push-ups - gets the heart rate up quickly, burning fat and calories and toning muscles in a time-efficient way.

Incredibly, a typical town hall official spends 85% of their time satisfying ministers in Whitehall and a puny 15% of the day for local residents. We believe that this relationship is upside down.