“If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.” IfsWantCarePayQualityCompanyFieldsAmountDrugWasteAdvertisingHealth CareHospitalsMisgivingsDrug CompaniesQuality Service Author:Dave Obey
“This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.” SocialCompanyEnvironmentWasteProgramDollarsSpendingHarmWelfareWealthyTaxpayersReductionMockery Author:Ralph Nader
“There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.” PeopleShouldUseCommunityCompanyWasteMajorsRiversExcuseOilChemicalsToxicNo ExcusesDumpEcoSpadesPipelineSewageToxic WasteRefinery Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues.” HelpingGivenChanceQualityCompanyIssuesCommunicationShapesWasteProgramSafetyEnvironmentalSatisfactionCustomersWideImprovementEmployeeSuggestionsReductionParticipatingCustomer Satisfaction Author:Stephen Covey
“Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.” ShouldTryingFactsCompanyWasteWeaknessDevelopingEmployeeWasting Time Author:Marcus Buckingham
“The key solution is to invest in innovation and entrepreneurship within the company. Reducing waste - although probably not eliminating it - and do so at all levels of government would probably generate the capital needed. Alas, that will probably not happen because it makes too much sense.” GovernmentHappensLevelsCompanyToo MuchKeysNeededWasteSolutionsInnovationEntrepreneurshipAlasReducingEliminating Author:Philip Kotler
“A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.” IfsPersonsMoneyCompanyTechnologySecurityCallingWasteComputerHundredSafetyDollarsTrustedAttackingHackersIntrusionDetectionEncryptionComplying Author:Kevin Mitnick
“Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.” ThinkingValuesCompanyIndustryWasteBenefitsCustomersProvidingToyota Author:Eric Ries
“Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal.” SelfScienceNatureNaturalAbilityCompanyAcceptingFeetPlanetsWasteSafetyWaveOilAccidentsBillionsHealFasterLoadElephantsCleaningPinsAlaskaEnvironmentalistOil CompaniesCleaning UpCoastlineSafety PinsTidying Up Author:Jeremy Clarkson
“Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors” ThinkingHappensBusinessCompanyTeamWasteResourcesEconomicsManagementEnvironmentalProductivityThings HappenAgendasCompetitorsPositivelyReducingMake Things HappenForward Thinking Author:Michael Meacher
“Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.” IfsCompanySolitudeWasteMeetingsEncountersIntrovertDoing Nothing Author:Emile M. Cioran