Philip Green Quotes

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

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.

We don't need more government, we just need the government we have to work smarter and more efficiently.

I do think there are some irreducible inefficiencies in government. But we still need to have government; we still need to make government effective if we can.

We need to deliver efficient, transparent government.

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

We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very carefully here - effective in our expansion. We really had - expansion of government agencies and expansion of use of contractors. Effective, we were; efficient, we weren't. And so, as director of the CIA, I went after the inefficiencies part.

When a government agency is more efficient, they’re not necessarily going to get that money back. So they don’t always have an incentive.

Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of a good government.

Being a fiscal conservative is not about slashing programs that help the poor, or improve health care, or ensure a social safety net. It's about insisting services are provided efficiently, get to only the people that need them, and achieve the desired results. Fiscal conservatives have hearts too — but we also insist on using our brains, and that means demanding results and holding government accountable for producing them

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

The one thing that I don't think the Obama administration gets anywhere near enough credit for is the high level of administrators. They meet all the time so they can synergize the federal investments. That's the way any corporation would do it.

In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.

I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.

I don't really care if you're a Republican or Democrat or you want to fight about the size of government. How about a government that just works? Put your tax dollar in and get a return out the other end.

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

We have a moral duty to have an efficient government.

The only way to make government more efficient is to make it smaller and to make it more local.

There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.