George Soros 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.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

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

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

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

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.

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.

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

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

But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.

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

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

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

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.

We don't have time as a nation to spend all of what we do blocking.

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

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

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

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

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

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.

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

System: Save yourself time, energy and money.