Quotes About Efficiency

Technology-based innovation is imperative for success in a competitive business environment.

Productive Workers + Innovative Products = Industry Leadership, no?)

All active-minded men the world over are boys at heart, be they generals or privates, and there are few things more stimulating or conducive to high morale and self-confidence than the knowledge that you have been chosen to do something about which others know nothing and which calls for a high standard of efficiency, integrity and courage. Basically, I suppose, it is conceit – a buccaneer complex.

In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity...in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for.

Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional elements which escape calculation.

This new world of total transparency and the previously unimaginable abundance of data is the level playing field in which only true PR professionals really stand out based on how they can position a client's message in the most efficient and beneficial way.

psychologist Daniel W. Josselyn wrote in his book Why Be Tired?:

A CEO's performance is as good as the performance of his middle managers

For the desert, a camel is better than a horse. - On Situational Leadership; Stamina vs. Speed

People around here didn't waste words; language was a tool, not a treat. You didn't roll it around on your tongue, revel in it.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.

If you want more to do," said Kim, "then do more. That's the rule of thumb in any workplace.

Basically, I wanted to get in, get on, get off, get up, get dressed and get out.

We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!

You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

Liebkind: Hitler. There was a painter. He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon. Two coats!

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

To think like a computer programmer, it helps to be lazy.)

Passing a healthcare replacement bill is a lot like trying to put socks on a rooster

The Computer Science Lab was a collection of engineers who weighed everything pitilessly against the question: How will this get us closer to our goal? They had committed themselves to developing Xerox's office of the future, and anything that diverted their attention or served an alternative goal had to be discarded or obliterated.

If you buy a 486 with a SuperVGA, you'll get performance that knocks your socks off, especially if you run Windows.