Quotes About Efficiency

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

People on sets can be unbearably wasteful in general.

Shipping packages one at a time is not only wasteful and environmentally unsustainable, it isn't cost-effective.

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.

The biggest problem with the deficit is programs that are unconstitutional and wasteful.

You don't need a ton of moves to get to where you want to be. You don't have to expend energy in a wasteful way. That doesn't mean not playing hard. It means playing smart.

If there is wasteful spending, I will not support it.

As Speaker of the North Carolina House, I've proven I'm a problem-solver, balancing budgets, cutting wasteful spending, and providing teachers with historic pay raises.

Did you know there's a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy - running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything - is the same as wasting your time? It's frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

The purpose of business is to make a reasonable return by making products and services that people want and value. If you are not, you are wasting resources.

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

I have matured in my shot selection but will not discard my style. I don't believe in wasting balls.

I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.

She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.

There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.

Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time.

I don't believe in wasting anybody's time. I like to be honest. I like to be clear.

I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.

There are some phone calls where it's not even worth wasting the electrons on.