"When a resource is scarce, you increase..." - Quote by Peter Drucker
When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.
More by Peter Drucker
“Focus on opportunities, not problems.”
“Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.”
“They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.”
More on Resources
“What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.”
“Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?”
“Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.”
More on Efficiency
“I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.”
“The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.”
“A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also deliver the kind of quality that was needed that often put health care providers in a box where they wanted to do better for their patients, but financial incentives were skewed the other way... We don't need to reinvent the wheel; you're already figuring out what works to reduce infections in hospitals or help patients with complicated needs.”