“Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.” PeopleDifferentSometimesDifficultViewsStepsAchieveCostBlockReduction Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer
“Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.” IndustryReturnCostGainsCriticalOilEfficiencyReductionRobbingProfitability Author:Giovanni Bisignani
“Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.” PracticeProductsCostAccessAvoidingReductionSynergyBest Practices Author:Carlos Ghosn
“Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.” ThinkingCountryStatesEnergyUnitedUnited StatesEconomyPolicyCoupleCostTaxesMajorsRateDrivingCorporateCanadaRegionsMexicoReservesElectricityReducingManufacturingRenaissanceReduction Author:Rick Perry
“The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany is grateful to America for the Marshall Plan, Italy would be grateful to Germany for helping it lower its refinancing costs.” HelpingWould BeAmericaRememberPlansFailingCostProgramGratefulDebtGermanyBe GratefulConvincingComprehensiveReductionMarshall Plan Author:George Soros
“Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.” RealEndsEnoughHelpingGoalResultsTechnologyCostResearchInnovationCleanDrivenSettingSettingsConsumersAppropriateAggressiveCarbonBreakthroughReductionTrajectoryBarometerResearch And Innovation Author:Vinod Khosla
“The reduction in a number of pregnancies is - compensates for the cost of contraception. ... Providing contraception as a critical preventive health benefit for women and for their children reduces health care.” ChildrenCareNumbersCostBenefitsCriticalHealth CarePregnancyProvidingReductionContraceptionHealth Benefits Author:Kathleen Sebelius
“Truly world-class firms are always examining their business processes and continuously seeking solutions to improve in key areas, such as lead time reduction, cost cutting, exceeding customer expectations, streamlining processes, shortening time to market for new products, and managing the global operation.” WorldProcessClassCuttingProductsKeysCostSolutionsExpectationsAreasSeekingCustomersFirmOperationsReductionExaminingWorld ClassNew ProductsStreamlining Author:Daniel Baldwin
“The good news is that we've seen in recent years significant reductions in the cost of solar panels and wind production. We know how significant an impact we can have by moving towards energy efficiency and transforming our transportation system. So we know what has to be done. We have to develop the political will to do it, and, as president, this would be an issue of huge concern to me.” KnowsYearsDoneWould BeMovingPoliticalEnergyPresidentKnow HowIssuesWindHugeCostNewsConcernImpactProductionsSignificantEfficiencyGood NewsTransformingTransportationReductionPolitical WillEnergy EfficiencySolar Panels Author:Bernie Sanders
“People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.” PeopleKindUseProductsCostNormalTradeChainsGrantedGlobalizationManufacturingReductionSupply Chain Author:Christine Lagarde
“Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.” NeedsTryingMadeGovernmentEffortEconomyCostProgramReductionKatrinaGovernment Programs Author:Ben Bernanke
“Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.” MaterialsCostUnityRaisedSpeedAdministrationStrictFilesContinuityDiscretionReductionPrecisionFrictionSubordinationOptimum Book:From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology