Efficiency Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Efficiency.
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“Effectiveness”
“Principles of Efficiency”
“The ultimate measurement is effectiveness, not efficiency.”
“There is an efficiency case for an institutional welfare state.”
“Wikipedia: Efficiency”
“The efficiency of a group working together is directly related to the homogeneity of the work they are performing.”
“Inefficiency is a curse; and no good intention atones for weakness of will and flabbiness of moral, mental, and physical fiber.”
“Modern institutions are transparently purposive and that we are in the midst of an evolutionary progression toward more efficient forms.”
“The criterion of efficiency dictates that choice of alternatives which produces the largest result for the given application of resources.”
“The merits of nationalization do not stand or fall with the efficiency or inefficiency of existing state departments as administrators of industry.”
“The aim of our efficiency has not been to produce goods, but to harvest dollars... The production of goods was always secondary to the securing of dollars.”
“More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.”
“If adequate motivations could be assured, a far higher degree of efficiency could be maintained in socialized industries than in industries operated for private gain.”
“Those who are in poverty may be able to get a bare sustenance but they are not able to obtain those necessaries which will permit them to maintain a state of physical efficiency.”
“The increase of this efficiency is essentially the problem of the manager, and the amount to which it can be increased by proper study is, in most cases, so great as to be almost incredible.”
“National politics have from the start aimed primarily at efficiency — that is, at the successful use of the force resident in the state to accomplish the purposes desired by the Sovereign authority.”
“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?”
“It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”
“There is no more fatal obstacle to efficiency than the revelation that idleness has the same privileges as industry, and that for every additional blow with the pick or hammer an additional profit will be distributed among shareholders who wield neither.”