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Letter "E" » efficiency
«The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
| Keywords:
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«The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?»
Author: Gerald R. Ford
(President, Vice President)
| Keywords:
bellyful, earful, efficiency, epitome, lunch
«One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.»
Author: John Gielgud
| Keywords:
Big Thing, combine, concentration, earning, efficiency, good nature, go down, unawareness
«Laziness is the mother of efficiency»
Author: Marian Propp
| About:
Laziness
| Keywords:
efficiency, laziness, The Mother, with efficiency
«The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
applied, automation, efficiency, efficient, inefficiency, inefficient, magnifies, magnify, magnifying, operation, rule of, technologies, technology, with efficiency
«The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, efficiency, egalitarianism, hierarchical, persuaded, sentimental, tangles, trauma
«Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage»
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
(Prime Minister)
| About:
Efficiency
| Keywords:
efficiency, existing, obviously, type, utilize, utilized, utilizing
«NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.»
Author: Monty Python
| Keywords:
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«Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| About:
Leadership,
Management
| Keywords:
climbing, determines, efficiency, ladder, ladders, leaning, leans, lean against, management, wall, with efficiency
«There can be economy only where there is efficiency.»
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