John le Carre Quotes

I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organisation is.

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs more in line, and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards.

As we were growing retail, and it was a huge growth phase, it was very important to keep our quality under control. Therefore, it was not just distribution, not just back-office operations, but also the risk-management practices. And these we learned together, supported by technology.

Strategic Work is all about the big questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Tactical Work is all about answers: This is the system we use to do each task. This is how we do it, how we measure it, how we monitor it.

Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.

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 believe that our cost effectiveness is one of our most powerful competitive advantages in Networks, and we will not lose sight of that in the future.

I continue to be a believer in a standard-based industry, where your lean cost structure is a huge advantage.

The rigor and discipline we use in running our business is key to consistently executing our growth strategy. And we systematically applied the same discipline to our investments, including acquisitions.

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

In business -- every business -- the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.

Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.

Management's job is to optimize the whole system.

Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.

The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.

All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.