Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
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.
The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.
The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.
As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
You have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.
Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.
I balance it all by being extremely organized, and I am a very efficient delegator.
The bureaucratic culture that we [Afghanistan] have inherited is an obstacle. Hierarchies may be extremely efficient for dealing with certain events, but they are not quick in responding to global, flexible networks.
Delivery is about being more efficient, it's about numbers, and it's about extracting costs.
Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.
I try to be as efficient as possible.
Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.
An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.
His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person, independent, amusing, temperamental, kind and generous, and he had a most perfect and efficient brain.
One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.
I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.