When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.

Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

My workers are efficient – instead of trusting those backstabbing, trust those who work honestly.

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

If you want to win, you have to be efficient.

Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards

The more efficient a machine becomes, the more energy it consumes.

The most efficient way for you to act with young people is to be a calming force.