Efficiency Quotes

“If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.”

“If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it.”

“The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.”

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

“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.”

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“Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.”

“The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.”

“Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.”

“We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.”

“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”

“Use the right word, not its second cousin.”

“If you learn to budget your time correctly, you will have time for all your needs.”

“I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.”

“A good sketch is better than a long speech.”

“Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.”

“In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.”

“A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.”

“You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.”

“Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'”

“Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.”

“Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.”

“Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”

“Those who work much do not work hard.”

“The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.”