efficient resource utilization Quotes

Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA.

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make foregrounds that don't quite fit with my backgrounds, I never waste it and try to find the best use for it.

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.

Contractors always pursue large profit, the customer - a high-quality end product in due time and at a lower cost. This struggle never ends, but this is natural.

Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.