Quotes About Maximization

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

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

y en la microoptimización,

Do less, to do more, to earn more.

Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution.

I tend to kind of try to use what's in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don't already have.

Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.

In short, there are always uncertainties. Nothing is preordained and nothing can be ruled out. Things always go wrong. There will be unexpected events and operational setbacks.53 Being prepared is key. You need contingency plans. You have to diversify and maximize your positions, and keep all options open. You must not do anything irrevocable—make a decision or take actions that put yourself in a position you cannot get out of later.

Every fragment of time that passes daily must be converted for it to be fully effective

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.

Specifically, what dangers do you have now that need to be eliminated, what opportunities need to be captured, and what strengths need to be maximized?

Instead of wondering, Am I happy?, maximizers wonder, Is this the best I can do? They experience what Schwartz calls regret in anticipation of making a decision. As he puts it in his book, "You imagine how you'll feel if you discover that there was a better option available. And that leap of imagination may be all it takes to plunge you into a mire of uncertainty.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

It is pointless to be any less than all you can be.

It is pointless to be any less than all you can be. - Sabine Strohem

Purpose is a call to action. But in order to hear that call and respond to it, we need to understand the distractions that get in the way of a serious discussion of an organization's Purpose. And in many companies, that starts with the most persuasive distraction: the maximization of profit. PURPOSE

The word satisfice is a combination of the words satisfy and suffice. It's a term that Herbert Simon coined in the 1950s, and it represents what we should shoot for rather than something that is guaranteed to optimize and maximize our happiness.

Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them.

the Carnegie way of doing things: calculate the productivity of every worker and every machine, cut costs, maximize profits, then repeat