Steven Chu Quotes

Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage.

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

I don't think we're wasting people in space.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature. For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.

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.

Efficiency does not grow indefinitely with increasing size.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

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

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

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

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

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

Allocating coal linkage to a generating company rather than to a specific plant gives companies the freedom to use the fuel in the most efficient way.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells.

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.

Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.