Optimum Quotes - page 2

Neither perfect knowledge of the past nor complete awareness of the current state of the arts gives sufficient foresight to indicate profitable action. Even for this more restricted objective, the pervasive effects of uncertainty prevent the ascertainment of actions which are supposed to be optimal in achieving profits. Now the consequence of this is that modes of behavior replace optimum equilibrium conditions as guiding rules of action. Therefore, in the following sections two forms of conscious adaptive behavior are emphasized. (Armen Alchian)
Ansoff (1965) gives only some indication of what he means by environment. This can be explained by Ansoff's classification of decisions into strategic. administrative and operating decisions. He (1965, p. 8) defines these types of decision as follows: Strategic - to choose product-market mix Administrative to structure the firm's resources for optimum performance Operating - to optimize the realization of the profitability potential with the present strategy. View quote
Igor Ansoff
I've been vegan for 10 years now, and there's nothing in my life that hasn't become better as a result. ... To perform my sports and to stay alive in high risk environments, I need to be at top level athletic fitness. I also need to be highly attuned to the natural environment, and able to listen to myself and any outside messages. I have found that eating a vegan diet gives me optimum physical and mental awareness. ... A vegan diet keeps consumer dollars out of the marketplace that supports factory farming, which I believe to be evil. View quote
Steph Davis
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them. View quote
Germaine Greer
The creation of a classical style was not so much the achievement of an ideal as the reconciliation of conflicting ideals-the striking of an optimum balance between them. View quote
Charles Rosen
I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to run at optimum speed. View quote
Joe Trohman
I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside. View quote
Henry Rollins
If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time. View quote
Sebastian Vettel
Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow. View quote
Linus Pauling
Getting to near zero marginal cost and nearly free goods and services is a function of advances in productivity. Productivity is "a measure of productive efficiency calculated as the ratio of what is produced to what is required to produce it.” If the cost of producing an additional good or service is nearly zero, that would be the optimum level of productivity. View quote
Jeremy Rifkin
Bedroom insulation is unnecessary and restrictive of optimum summer sleeping comfort. (Ken Kern)
An equilibrium is not always an optimum; it might not even be good. This may be the most important discovery of game theory. View quote
Ivar Ekeland
When we leave out people on the grounds of ethnicity we limit our options. As such, we become poorer because we are not making optimum use of our human resources, thereby depriving us of the returns and full benefit of our capabilities. View quote
Epeli Ganilau
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration. View quote
Max Weber
The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off. View quote
Alexei Sayle
This is a test. Take notes. This will count as 3/4 of your final grade. Hints: remember, in chess, kings cancel each other out and cannot occupy adjacent squares, are therefore all-powerful and totally powerless, cannot affect each other, produce stalemate. Hinduism is a polytheistic religion; the sect of Atman worships the divine spark of life within Man; in effect saying, "Thou art God." Provisos of equal time are not served by one viewpoint having media access to two hundred million people in prime time while opposing viewpoints are provided with a soapbox on the corner. Not everyone tells the truth. Operational note: these sections may be taken out of numerical sequence: rearrange to suit yourself for optimum clarity. Turn over your test papers and begin. View quote
Harlan Ellison
In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill. View quote
Samuel Beckett