James T. Walsh Quotes

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

What we need is to use what we have.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

I think one key part of doing more with less is to be more strategic, to realize what the objectives you're truly trying to accomplish are and then to drive with greater focus towards those objectives.

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect', when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.

True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.

Support what works and stop supporting what does not work.

It is not how much you spend on defense as much as how you spend it.

Cost effectiveness and effectiveness are not always the same thing in government.

Because the resources available to the U. S. military will be increasingly limited, the objectives must be too.

If you see something that doesn't make sense, ask. Change it. Think about dollars, think about your soldiers' time, think about efficiency.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Our focus was directed at developing the best possible and easiest to use product, and this is where we invested our time. Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So, focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily inefficient.

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.

The bottom line is this: in an era of mounting fiscal challenges and competing demands, we must actively seek ways to free up time, money, and manpower to invest back into our top priorities.

Don't start vast projects with half-vast resources.