Quotes About Streamlining

We're allowing technology to take out the non-value-added manual elements of the McDonald's experience.

I like getting rid of things. I really do.

I believe it saves a good half hour to forty-five minutes a day, not having to stand in front of the hangers and the drawers and figure out what to wear.

Everybody loves saving time and something that's easy.

I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.

The model of Yood is 'taking search out of search.'

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

Put all the menus and TV guides and magazines and local info papers in the drawers. I hate clutter!

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

Sometimes expanding your game isn't better. Sometimes shrinking your game is a little bit better and really get to the things you do well.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

The way we designed self-driving payroll, it ends payroll as an independent system that you're entering information in by hand.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

I've been a conservative when it comes to budgeting issues and streamlining government.

Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

Dropbox, with its emphasis on good old-fashioned hierarchies, is superb at automatically saving one original of each photo I take, whether shot with a phone or a fancy camera. No loops, no duplicates, no confusion.

What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they're dragging you down. They're turning you into Microsoft. They're causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.

It was something they did without thinking. They had formed meditation habits. High "self-controllers" achieved desired outcomes by streamlining, not struggling.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

Redundancy—inefficient by definition—serves as the antidote to confusion.

It's quicker, easier, and involves less licking

There is a big difference between eliminating waste and not creating it in the first place.

You must always work not just within, but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way, the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. —Pablo Picasso

Usually supply chains operate quietly behind the scenes.