Efficiency Quotes

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”

“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”

“Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.”

“In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful”

“The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.”

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”

“I read poetry to save time.”

“An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.”

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

“A good counter needs no calculator.”

“Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.”

“If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.”

“It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.”

“My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows, these are cogent enough. It rests essentially on the view that the free market is the only safe way of ensuring that productive effort is directed towards supplying what individuals actually want, and in a way which secures the dignity and independence of the worker.”

“Good walking leaves no track behind it.”

“Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.”

“Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.”

“The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.”

“Do nothing twice over.”

“We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less, and therefore did better, would strengthen its authority.”

“A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.”

“A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.”

“In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.”

“Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.”

“Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.”