#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.”

“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.”