Robert Burns Quotes

I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years.

True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

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

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

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.

One of my main agenda right from the beginning has been cost rationalization, and we have done a lot of cost rationalization.

I really don't want the best people at the highest cost.

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

A boss is all about good business, so start with everything that you can control and you can turn up that costs you nothing, then lay all the knobs out, look at all the controls, all the remotes, and just turn them all up. It don't cost you nothing.

When I took office in 2011, I made a commitment that the Office of Attorney General would find ways to do more while spending fewer taxpayer dollars.

Every business has to figure out how to make itself more efficient. They've got to use technology. They've got to use the Internet, things like that. We can do the same thing with our state colleges.

One of the ways I think you make more money is by creating more efficiency.

I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business.

The use of automated technology generally translates into lower costs, freeing up resources for more efficient uses, including lower prices.

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

If I were to spend investor money on nice furnishings and so forth, particularly early on, I might not have it for opportunities that can really grow our business.

In football, you can do well even without spending huge amounts.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.