Harold E. Varmus Quotes

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

If you spend £200million, £300m every year, obviously, even if you make mistakes, you have a good team, but without spending so much money, you can still improve and do well.

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money.

Putting together a sustainable budget requires that we all work together, that we focus our scarce resources on key priorities, and that we strengthen our capacity to deliver the best product we can for the American people. And that takes money.

My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.

It is a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

Cost effectiveness and effectiveness are not always the same thing in government.

There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business.

The best way of ensuring that we get what we need is by demonstrating we have a clear plan, we are thinking strategically and ensuring every pound of taxpayer's money is spent wisely and my focus is ensuring we do that.

We want to make sure the military gets it right and understands that if they're going to have less money, they're going to have to spend it a lot more smartly.

To make three guineas do the work of five.

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.

I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

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 State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.