Efficiency Quotes

“I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.”

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

“Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.”

“It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.”

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

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

“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.”

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

“Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.”

“Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that if people call you and say, 'I've got this great, wonderful idea', you don't spend 10 minutes once you know in the first sentence that it isn't a great, wonderful idea...Don't be polite and go through the whole process.”

“Necessity does everything well.”

“President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.”

“It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.”

“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.”

“Complexity is the enemy of execution!”

“Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.”

“We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.”

“My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.”

“It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.”

“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.”

“It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”

“The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.”

“Activity without purpose is the drain of your life”

“The greater your power degree, the extra environment friendly your physique. The extra environment friendly your physique, the higher you are feeling and the extra you'll use your expertise to supply excellent outcomes.”

“In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.”