be efficient
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...the profit system, by its necessary nature, operated to stop limit and cripple production at the point where it began to be efficient.
It is becoming perfectly clear that the principles underlying industrial and military efficiency are the same and that a nation, to be efficient in a military sense, must first be efficient industrially.
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.
It's purty hard t' be efficient without bein' obnoxious.
As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.