Take away to move ahead?

I was playing catch-up on my reading and ran across this;

"Perfection is achieved not when you have nothing more to add,
but when you have nothing left to take away."

Of course I failed to credit who said it but the point hit me in terms of our economic situation. Budget reductions force decisions to "reduce" which makes most managers "cut." OK, I'm doing that- your doing that but like the surgeons scalpel, it needs to be done with precise direction to insure a healthy outcome. "Taking away" in order to simplify is a much more tactful way of reducing budgets and becoming more streamlined.
(And even making it easier on our customers in the meantime.)