Eamon de Valera Quotes

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.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.

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

I think there are several departments we could completely get rid of, and we wouldn't miss it.

If you see something that doesn't make sense, ask. Change it. Think about dollars, think about your soldiers' time, think about efficiency.

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

Growth hackers don't tolerate waste.

Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.

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.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

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.

If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people.

For too long the federal government has measured quantity, not quality: What it puts in rather than what it gets out.

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

We have to learn to do more with less.

Efficiency is key to a successful kitchen. Clean your station as you go. Make yourself aerodynamic. Buy the best. Taste ingredients as you go.