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“Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not for the economy.”

America Effort Economy Industry Taxes Findings Britain Efficient Shelter Britain And America

Book:The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

Source: The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

“All of us here are servants of the reading public. I am the head of the servants and I must show that I know better than any of the servants where the materials are found. I want to show that our service here is efficient and that we are really working to serve.”

Knows Want Shows Reading Found Materials Servant Efficient

Author:Epifanio de los Santos

“As the world's "most dynamic" cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions.”

“...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.”

“The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient ... But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.”

“Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong.”

Values Investing Efficient Hypothesis Being Wrong Efficient Markets

Author:Seth Klarman

“My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'”

Way Would Be Order Fighting Advice Teeth Efficient Nails Traveler

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body between between two points, not the most direct. Fly fishing is to fishing as ballet is to walking.”

Way Trying Two Body Beautiful Moving Sea Walking Rivers Direct Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Ballet Efficient Fly Fishing

Author:Howell Raines

“Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees of individual freedom and private property, as well as a stable currency and efficient public services.”

Source: The Encyclicals of John Paul II

“Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.”

Wells Growth Economy Financial Congress Missions Critical Employment Preserves Stability Efficient Stable Maximum Output Financial System Price Stability

Author:Ben Bernanke

“Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.”

Reality Science Knowing Seeing Buddhism Perception Method Efficient Accurate Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.”

Source: The English Poets Lessing: Rousseau

“Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.”

Care Energy Numbers Century Late Machines These Days Buying Pet Devices Instruction Efficient Feeding Twentieth Century

Author:Ellen Goodman

“There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.”

World Reason Cutting Huge Edges Reason Why Fuel No Reason Efficient Vehicle Cutting Edge

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.”

Years Two Courses Drug Abuse Suicide Accomplish Speed Decades Efficient Addict Alcoholics Merciful Drug Addict Drug Abuse

Book:Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

“We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content. What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet-- and no one's gonna shut down the Internet. And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. And the way we expressed it to them is: Pick one lock--open every door. It only takes one person to pick a lock. Worst case: Somebody just takes the analog outputs of their CD player and rerecords it-- puts it on the Internet. You'll never stop that. So what you have to do is compete with it.”

Way Believe Persons Cases Player Doors Worst Internet Protect Picks Property Don't Believe Digital Copies Efficient Locks Distribution Stolen Cds Output Analog Cd Players

Author:Steve Jobs

“Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service. The Japanese corporate credo, on the other hand, is that a company should become the world's most efficient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow.”

Thinking World Should Problem Hands America Company Leader Products Offers Aim Profit Managers Making Money Corporate Executives Efficient World Leader Providers Credo

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government.”

Want Needs Bigs Government Order Pay Economy Effects Periods Taxes Finance Efficient Socialist Big Government

Author:Antonis Samaras

“Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile.”

Needs Facts Conditions Percent Sitting Safety Train Speed Enormous Worthwhile Efficient Urban Requirements Doing Nothing Automobile Sitting Around Gasoline High Speed Tweak

Author:William J. Mitchell

“Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.”

Marriage Remains Engines Efficient Disenchantment

Author:Caitlin Flanagan

“Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.”

“Cheating is often more efficient.”

Cheating Efficient

Author:Jeri Ryan

“Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life.”

World Certain Havens Buddhism Holes Efficient Tied

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unfortunately, the current pace of progress is not nearly rapid enough, with many rich industrialised countries being slow to make the transition to cleaner and more efficient forms of economic growth.”

Country Enough Form Growth Rich Progress Economic Climate Change Currents Transition Pace Efficient Rapids Economic Growth Cleaners

Author:Nicholas Stern

“Although efficient markets people still go around saying there is a "mountain" of evidence supporting their hypothesis, the truth of the matter is that it's a very old mountain that's now eroding rapidly into the sea.”

People Stills Matter Sea Mountain Evidence Efficient Hypothesis Efficient Markets

Author:Robert Haugen

“The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.”

World Way Life Giving Humans Reason Able Order Human Beings Ultimate Meaning Of Life Efficient Wiser Another Way Meditating Life Means

Book:The Art of Meditation

Source: The Art of Meditation

“Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!”

Way Done Anxiety Efficient Panic Rockets Things Done Panic Attacks

Author:Sandra Tsing Loh

“... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.”

Government Values Interest Community Clear Cost Shapes Behavior Alternatives Perceive Corporations Efficient Prevailing

Author:Juanita M. Kreps

“Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.”

“Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.”

People Children War Government Parent Forget Poverty Streets Members Caring Bridges Welfare Decent Our Society Efficient Household Frightening Wages Emergencies Garbage

Book:PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist

Source: PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist

“Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.”

Mind Happens Wealth Pay Talent Source Higher Efficient Vulgar Gross

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.”

Use Goal Land Type Development Standards Negative Impact Wide Variety Efficient Flexibility Housing Reducing Land Use

Author:Bill Vaughan

“we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.”

People Way May Seems Disease Illness Handle Odd Expenses Efficient Better Ways Eliminating

Author:Alice Tisdale Hobart

“As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and creating an ambiance in which people work with zest and spirit will help reconcile the split between the ideals of being efficient and being humane. This integration of female values is already producing a more collaborative kind of leadership, and changing the very ideal of what strong leadership actually is.”

Source: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership

“The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.”

Should Mean Persons Political Ability Impossible Tasks Employee Efficient Rulers

Author:Chanakya

“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.”

Country Use Energy Natural Business Issues Huge Resources Climate Make Sense Efficient Efficiency Natural Resources Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis

Author:Ali al-Naimi

“This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.”

Way Ends Humor Political Decision Solutions Administration Efficient Political Humor Right Decision Stalemate

Author:George W. Bush

“First be effective and then be efficient.”

Firsts Culture Efficient Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“The young generation of today is globally connected. They want to live in an equitable and efficient India. We have to be ready for this, and work for this.”

Want Today Young Generations Youth Ready India Connected Efficient Equitable Young Generation

Author:Narendra Modi

“Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.”

Mean Jobs Growth Greater Car Movement Population Productivity Goods Efficient Urban Density Goods And Services Job Growth Population Density

Author:Anthony Albanese

“Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.”

Violence Efficient Non Violence

Author:Andrew Young

“Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.”

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.”

Knows Looks Faces Imagination Steps Blood Example Ridiculous Monsters Efficient Ketchup

Author:Michael Haneke

“Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.”

“All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it's a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.”

Ifs Want Writing Mean Enough Film Three Rooms Acting Materials Scripts Versions Rhythm Shooting Efficient Filmmaking Editing Harvest Manipulate Coverage

Author:Alexander Payne

“I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.”

Want Needs Firsts Parent Generations Percent Scientist Planes Atmosphere Fuel Efficient Airplane Engineers Mars Flew Scientists And Engineers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.”

Source: The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

“If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members”

Ifs Levels Existence Members Behavior Bases Ethical Efficient Norm High Level Ethical Behavior

Author:Francis Fukuyama

“If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.”

Ifs Home Energy Water Wise Habit Efficient Good Habits

Author:Sheherazade Goldsmith

“Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.”

Helping Use Moving Resources Program Safety Capability Efficient Taxpayers Harness Workforce Safety Net

Author:Todd Young

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