Efficacity Quotes & Sayings

Frankly, if you can sell something at $80 a tonne that cost you $20 a tonne, you might want to sell as much as you can. — Kerry Stokes

What would happen if we took everything that exists in the universe, and divided it by one? I'll tell you. It would remain the same. So, therefore, how do we know that someone isn't doing that right now, at this very instant? It makes me shudder to think of it. We might be constantly divided by one, or multiplied by one for that matter, and we wouldn't even know it! — Mark Helprin

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented. — Orhan Pamuk

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most. — Dallas Willard

He would have been careful not to violate his conscience in any way that might keep him from devoting his full attention to the sin he had decided to commit. Pedro was not really very different from all men, at least in that. Not very different from the bank teller who makes sure to give every customer exact change, even while he is embezzling. — Warren Eyster

Well that's it: if you don't think, you shouldn't talk! — Lewis Carroll

No one can crave what truly harms him. — Franz Kafka

The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy. — Jean Baudrillard

I'll probably never fully become what I wanted to be when I grew up, but that's probably because I wanted to be a ninja princess. — Cassandra Duffy