“Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.” IdeasHelpingHomeJobsEnergyStarsCommonEconomyBillsChinaLocalsCommon SenseConstructionEfficiencyManufacturingBoostEnergy EfficiencyHomeownersOutsourced Author:Peter Welch
“We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government.” PeopleGovernmentJobsOpportunityEconomyIncludingImprovementVietnamEfficiency Author:Bill Gates
“I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy to increase our efficiency, our competitiveness, both nationally and internationally” PeopleThinkingEconomyIncreaseCongressEfficiencyCompetitivenessBack To Work Author:Peter DeFazio
“The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.” HumansDoeWisdomPoliticsLevelsEconomyOur LivesPropertyProtectionIntimateLiberalismEfficiencyPrivate PropertyHuman FreedomMarket Efficiency Author:Richard Allen Epstein
“We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.” IfsCareThreePoliticsEconomyFourPercentIncreaseTake CareLiberalismAccomplishedTwelveEfficiencyFoldsRedesign Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.” I CanPoliticsEnergyCompanyEconomyGrowingCleanClimate ChangeFasterEfficiencyMassachusettsClean EnergyEnergy Efficiency Author:John F. Kerry
“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.” IfsWantRealEndsWould BeFormNamesProcessCommunityEconomyAchieveMankindCenturyHigherThousandLimitsStandardsLaborFunctionSpeedSavingCollectivesDevicesWasting TimeStableDogmaEfficiencyConsumerismCagesNineteenth CenturyFutilityOverconsumptionExtravagantStandards Of LivingSquirrels Author:Lewis Mumford
“The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.” FacesEconomyEconomicsBarriersCapitalistEfficiencyMarket Economy Author:Amory Lovins
“E governance can bring minimum government and maximum governance. It is easy, effective and economic governance. It brings empowerment, equity and efficiency of the economy. It is a very useful field that can be the greatest problem solver of the people.” PeopleProblemGovernmentEasyEconomyEconomicFieldsEmpowermentIndiaEfficiencyMinimumEquityGovernanceMaximumProblem Solvers Author:Narendra Modi
“The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.” Has BeensPastForceNumbersHalfTechnologyEconomyDoubtEconomicCenturyReturnPeriodsRootsTransformationInnovationRaisesTrainDecadesIntenseTendenciesDramaticNo DoubtProductiveYieldEfficiencyOver The PastNew TechnologyCumulative Author:Alan Greenspan
“I am not a believer in large salaries. I hold that every man should be paid for personal production. Our big men at Bethlehem seldom get salaries of over one hundred dollars a week; but all of them receive bonuses computed entirely on the efficiencies and the economies registered in their departments.” MenShouldBigsEconomyWeekHundredPaidDollarsProductionsBelieverEvery ManDepartmentEfficiencySalaryBonusBethlehem Book:Succeeding With What You Have Source: Succeeding With What You Have