Efficiency Quotes - Page 4

• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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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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• 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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• 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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• One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

  William McFee

  Obscurity, Reputation, Fame

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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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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• I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Fighting, Years, United States

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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 business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Business, Courtesy

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• If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

  Kelly Miller

  Initiative, Ability, Ifs

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• It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.

  John Stewart Bell

  Believe, Improvement, Failing

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• Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

  John C. Maxwell

  Effectiveness, Survival, Foundation

  John C. Maxwell (2002). “Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know”, p.27, Thomas Nelson

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• Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Moving, Mind, President

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• Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

  Jay Inslee

  Umpires, Goal, Car

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• So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.

  Bill Vaughan

  Opportunity, Natural, Bigger

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• Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

  Elon Musk

  Years, Design, Mind

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• Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Government, May, Input

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• There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Economy

  Address to his Constituents, 1 October 1868, in 'The Times' 3 October 1868

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• Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.

  Ross Perot

  Beautiful, Bigs

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• There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

  Josh Billings

  Two, People, Quality

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• The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

  Northrop Frye

  Book, Technology, Men

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• Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

  Clayton Christensen

  Jobs, Innovation, Disruptive

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• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

  Robert Burton

  Inspirational, Confidence, Ambition

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• Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

  David Seabury

  Energy, Sparks, Plugs

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• Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Play, Roles, Purpose

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