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“New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.”

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Author:James Packer

“The good news about fresh water is that, even after accounting for the larger volume of water that is unavailable to people from the hydrologic cycle, there is enough on a global scale to support current and anticipated populations on a sustainable basis... Three essential goals are dependable and safe supplies for people, protection and management of the environmental systems through which water moves, and efficient water use. Meeting these goals will require that fresh water not continue to be treated as a free good or as the principal means for disposing of human and industrial wastes.”

“Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

“For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.”

Ifs Years Humans Has Beens Dream Asks Wish Waste Management Ask Me Throwing Irresponsible Hopes Dreams

Book:The lightning thief

Source: The lightning thief

“Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.”

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Author:Bill McKibben

“The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle”

“Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply”

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Author:David Miliband

“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”

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Author:Michael Meacher

“(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss”

Firsts Loss Business Principles Waste Economics Management Profit Avoidance Guiding Principles

Author:Peter Drucker

“The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me”

People Energy Business Amount Waste Projects Economics Management Dwelling

Book:Like A Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School

Source: Like A Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School

“I greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done.’ Okay, we may make a few mistakes along the way but we are not going to waste any time.' They make decisions; they are incredibly disciplined and focused.”

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Author:Larry Ellison

“Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.”

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Author:Frank Knight

“Many people in management are being paid to produce waste.”

People Produce Waste Paid Management

Author:W. Edwards Deming