Efficiency Quotes - Page 3

• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Marketing

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping onto a plane and zooming across the United States in a matter of hours doesn't hold a candle to the dear, old-fashioned train ride.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fun, Race, United States

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

  William Ames

  May, Creation, Providence

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.

  Walter Dill Scott

  Men, Average, Fifty

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• The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

  Peter Drucker

  Wise, Effectiveness, Together

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.187, Routledge

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• The men who succeed are the efficient few.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Ambition, Men, Succeed

  National Printer Journalist, Volume 51, No. 7-12 (p. 28), 1933; later quoted in Arthur Tremain "Successful Retailing: A Handbook for Store Owners and Managers" (p. 11), 1951.

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• Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Morning, Atheist

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.220, John Wiley & Sons

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• Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough.

  Clement Greenberg

  Sin, Enough, Accepted

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.31, Beacon Press

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• We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual, Character, Thinking

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Addresses of President Wilson, January 27-February 3, 1916”

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• Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.

  Donald Knuth

  Strong, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Computer Programming as an Art". Communications of the ACM, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 1974.

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• There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Economics, Economy, Economic Efficiency

  "Our future energy strategy cannot depend on renewables alone" by John Hayes, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2012.

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• 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.

  Barney Frank

  Healthy, Produce, Inequality

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• In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

  William Ames

  Exercise, Perfect, Firsts

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technology, Order, Civilization

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• By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well.

  John Salazar

  Agriculture, Energy, Use

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• In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Country, Slavery, Ratios

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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• I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.

  Lois Capps

  Years, Energy, Alternatives

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• The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Stars, Texas, Office

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• Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Travel, Home

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Country, Geography And History, Energy

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• Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Country, Appreciation, Mean

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• We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

  David Neeleman

  Smile, Fun, People

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". San Francisco Chronicle Intreview, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

  William Lyon Mackenzie

  War, Venture, Deny

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• Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, Genes, Inefficiency

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• The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

  Henry A. Wallace

  People, Fascists, Fascism In America

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