Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency."
Efficiency quotes
Efficiency
85 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"When two forces unite, their efficiency double."
Theresa May
Politician
"I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency."
Plato
Philosopher
"I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency"
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"While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses."
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"If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived."
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"Efficiency is anything that scores."
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"There can be economy only where there is efficiency."
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"I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency."
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"Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential."
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"If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right."
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"It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it."
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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."
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"There can be no economy where there is no efficiency."
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"Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe."
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"We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction."
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"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare"
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"Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things."
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"In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship."
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"... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience."
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"Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time."
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"The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency."
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