R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

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.

System: Save yourself time, energy and money.

Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

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

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

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

There is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

A lot can be accomplished with current resources if we don't stand around wringing our hands because of lack of funding or complex requirements.

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

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.

We have to learn to do more with less.

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

I try to be as efficient as possible because in my process, I think that actually helps the work. I like having the pressure of time and money and really trying to stick to the parameters we've been given.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of their resource management, with an eye to environmental best-practice and long term sustainability, produce fresh efficiency and fresh savings that actually shock those in the company

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

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

... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.