Meg Whitman Quotes

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.

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.

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

The only way to create prosperity is to do more with less. In economic terms, an increase in productivity is an increase in the amount or quality of output generated for each unit of input. Jobs do not make society wealthier - productivity does.

Many Western nations have made significant gains through automation and operational excellence, while emerging markets rely on ever-increasing numbers of workers. Each will improve their competitive position only by examining every element of operations to make existing resources more efficient and to deliver real value at lower cost.

Making everything more efficient should make everybody happier.

I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens.

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.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

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

Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

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.

It's not about working harder; it's about working the system.

When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.

The only way to make budget cuts is to bring down force structure.

No altered system will work a miracle. Any wild experiment will only add to the confusion. Our best assurance lies in efficient administration of our proven system

The object of protection is that of diminishing the distance and the waste between the producer and the consumer

Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.