Quotes About Maximization

If you seek and accept only the best, you are a maximizer.

And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again.

It's not about working harder; it's about working the system.

people with high maximization scores experienced less satisfaction with life, were less happy, were less optimistic, and were more depressed than people with low maximization scores.

Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture, so I think we're actually utilizing comic book heroes in a much more in-depth way than before. They have such potential, and I think we're maximizing the potential.

Utilitarianism holds that an action, or a law, is right only if it produces the best outcome – only if it brings about the "greatest good for the greatest number.

The antidote to inequality is equality. The question is how do you achieve equality? I believe that, for business, which is where I can speak, we have to shift from shareholder maximization to stakeholder maximization.

In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something.

Os economistas baseiam toda uma teoria de comportamento social nesta premissa individualista. A teoria económica da ação coletiva defende que os indivíduos se agregam em grupos sobretudo como um meio de maximizar os seus próprios interesses individuais e não por qualquer motivo de sociabilidade natural.

Identify the 20 percent of your products and services that account for 80 percent of your sales and profits. How could you sell more of them?

Jevons drew up 'calculating man', whose fixation on maximising his utility had him constantly weighing up the consumption satisfaction that he might derive from every possible combination of his options.7 With this move, Jevons placed utility at the heart of economic theory —a spot it occupies to this day—and from it he derived the law of diminishing returns: the more of a thing that you consume (be it bananas or shampoo), the less you will desire still more of it.

Don't fear big. Fear mediocrity. Fear waste. Fear the lack of living to your fullest

Don't fear big. Fear mediocrity. Fear waste. Fear the lack of living to your fullest.

Optimize processes, he urged, not people.

To have humans executing tests that should be automated is a waste of human potential.

economy is the art of making the most of life." Economics is the study of how we do that.

The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau, filling up the small spaces with small things.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

The high ambition, therefore, seems to me to be this: That one should strive to combine the maximum of impatience with the maximum of skepticism, the maximum of hatred of injustice and irrationality with the maximum of ironic self-criticism. This would mean really deciding to learn from history rather than invoking or sloganising it.

We all have the capacity to be the best, we just need to use the capacity the best.

The fully actualized human being is a person who maximizes his or her potential. This activation process attempts to move consciousness from one reality to another, including the incorporation of being aware of multiple realities existing simultaneously. The objective of the actualized integral human being is to unite with the One, the Source, to achieve unity (from the Greek henosis) and to perfect oneself.

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

The big problem in our society is the obsession with maximisation.