Efficiency Quotes

“If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.”

“The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.”

“Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.”

“Sometimes, less is more.”

“Genius has no taste for weaving sand.”

“There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.”

“Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.”

“It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.”

“...to win by one is enough.”

“If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.”

“The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.”

“It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.”

“Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.”

“We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action”

“Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.”

“Power and speed be hands and feet.”

“Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.”

“Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.”

“The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.”

“If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.”

“Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.”

“The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.”

“Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.”

“Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!”

“In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.”