Arthur C. Nielsen Quotes

I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

I am careful with my material and presentation.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

I have very often held a view - and I am public about it - that if you run your operations inefficiently, you can't expect your consumer to pay for your inefficiencies.

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

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My self-editing process is intense.

I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

We're going to have to find a way to serve our constituents and our taxpayers better and quicker and more accurately with fewer workers. I'm convinced we can do it and we don't have a choice.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

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.

We must strike a balance between speed and thoroughness, between the need for time frames and the avoidance of mistakes which will later cost us dearly.

Economy in government does not mean spending little ... It means spending what you have and spending it well.

Frugality is a great revenue.

It is always better to be inefficient and correct than to be incorrect and efficient.