Efficiency Quotes

Necessity does everything well.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

It is contrary to our principles to multiply organizations, since, in all conscience, there are enough of them. And when organizations are created they need individuals to look after them.

I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

...to win by one is enough.

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.

Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.

Being busy does not always mean real work.

There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.

If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.

Never mistake motion for progress.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

A wasteful defense is a weak defense.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

Complexity is the enemy of execution!

The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.

I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.

It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.

Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.

One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

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

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

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.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex a being for any one of them to have the casting vote. If any one of them do have the casting vote, it is more likely to be the strength of his desire and passion, the strength of the interest he takes in what is proposed. Concentration, memory, reasoning power, inventiveness, excellence of the senses, all are subsidiary to this.

If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.

A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily

I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up.

Un croquis vaut mieux qu

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

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

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

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.

Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.