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  • There can be economy only where there is efficiency. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. -- Peter Drucker
  • Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. -- Peter Drucker
  • The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. -- Aldous Huxley
  • Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. -- Stephen Covey
  • What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity. -- Lois Capps
  • Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side. -- John W. Snow
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Efficiency obliterates identity -- William Greider
  • Efficiency is intelligent laziness -- David Dunham
  • Efficiency is anything that scores. -- Bruce Lee
  • Efficiency was a higher priority than imagination. -- Adam Christopher
  • Efficiency and focus are the keys to success. -- Robert Crais
  • Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success. -- John C. Maxwell
  • Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things. -- Peter Drucker
  • Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler. -- Georges St-Pierre
  • Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of available jobs. -- Clayton Christensen
  • The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. -- Peter Drucker
  • 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
  • The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens. -- Camille Paglia
  • The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income. -- Peter Welch
  • Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework. -- Clayton Christensen
  • Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation. -- Clayton Christensen
  • Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe. -- Tim Ferriss
  • The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence. -- Milton Friedman
  • We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers. -- Daryl Hannah
  • Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the opposite...efficiency fails to curb demand because it lets more people do more, and do it faster-and more/more/faster invariably swamps all the efficiency gains. -- Peter W. Huber
  • The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. -- Henry A. Wallace
  • The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency. -- Gifford Pinchot
  • I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty. -- Samuel Goldwyn
  • The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. -- Northrop Frye
  • Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
  • Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business. -- Carlos Slim
  • One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff. -- William McFee
  • There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. -- Peter Drucker
  • Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency. -- Lewis Thompson Preston
  • Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company. -- Elliot Morley
  • A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power. -- Zac Goldsmith
  • I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency. -- Ryan Seacrest
  • No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company. -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. -- Hannah Arendt
  • No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers. -- Orville Wright
  • We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education. -- Charles Vest
  • The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection. -- Li Keqiang
  • Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life. -- Thomas Friedman
  • The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs. -- Shuji Nakamura
  • 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
  • If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game. -- Satya Nadella
  • Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them. -- Harvey Mackay
  • The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race. -- Amity Shlaes
  • Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That's why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It's for the experience. -- Travis Kalanick
  • The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts. -- Jack Welch
  • 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
  • If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? -- Joseph Stiglitz
  • Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture. -- Apolo Ohno
  • I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ -- Self-esteem
  • Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage -- Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency -- Eric Ambler
  • Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it -- Walter Chrysler
  • Hiring quotas reduce efficiency. -- James Cook
  • Don't equate activity with efficiency. -- Harvey Mackay
  • Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness. -- Curious George Brigade
  • Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode. -- Don Roff
  • When two forces unite, their efficiency double. -- Isaac Newton
  • Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them. -- Clayton Christensen
  • Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency -- Plato
  • You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things. -- Stephen Covey
  • Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success -- Stephen Covey
  • In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency. -- Vance Havner
  • The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. -- Gerald R. Ford
  • There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency. -- David Cameron
  • Location is all about the efficiency of work for me. -- Michelle Grabner
  • ... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience. -- Kelly Miller
  • Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy
  • Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method. -- Reginald Fessenden
  • Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people. -- Stephen Covey
  • In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key, -- Georges St-Pierre
  • Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need -- Hilary Benn
  • The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency -- Gifford Pinchot
  • The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. -- Helmut Jahn
  • Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
  • If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would. -- Dennis Holme Robertson
  • Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency. -- Amish Tripathi
  • If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency. -- David Mitchell
  • Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life. -- Robert Fulghum
  • They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China. -- Lester R. Brown
  • Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it. -- Ric Ocasek
  • Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold. -- Paul Ormerod
  • One thing that I learned from judo... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort. -- Ronda Rousey
  • The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary. -- Sun Tzu
  • The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence. -- William Ames
  • Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. -- David M. Shoup
  • We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction. -- Steve Miller
  • I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency. -- Theresa May
  • XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  • How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that? -- Mani S. Sivasubramanian
  • Let's create jobs by bringing the Shaheen-Portman bipartisan energy efficiency bill to the floor. -- Jeanne Shaheen
  • People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99) -- Tom Robbins
  • I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement. -- Barbara Boxer
  • The interchange of information is creating a new paradigm for the energy efficiency market -- Greg Turner
  • Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places. -- Dan Quayle
  • Fiat has a lot going for it in terms of design, technology and efficiency. -- Peter Schmidt
  • Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes. -- Steve Allen
  • While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow. -- Drew Ginn
  • Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy. -- Bill Vaughan
  • The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve. -- Eugene Wigner
  • The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. -- Albert Ellis
  • Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency. -- Bill Vaughan
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