Americans believe that the private sector is always more efficient and cheaper than big government, and particularly when you go among Republicans, even after five beers, they still believe it. But I always say, "If it's really true, why would they need that 12 percent extra on a traditional government program? Explain to me why something that costs more saves me money as a taxpayer. ".
First be effective and then be efficient.
The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically.
In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.
There’s no question that mistakes were made and as CEO, I have to accept responsibility for those mistakes. I was focused on lowering costs and making the hospitals more efficient. I could have had more internal and external controls. I learned hard lessons and I’ve taken that lesson and it’s helped me become a better business person and a better leader.
I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.
One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.
Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
You have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.
The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.
The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.
It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.
In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.
But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.
Vampire teeth really aren't very efficient, are they? It looks very messy. I'm not sure it's the best way to get a pint off anyone.