Quotes About Streamlining

We're trying to do for the national ­security apparatus what FedEx did for the postal ­service.

Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.

Radically simplify the user interface, reinvent it, enough face lifts! You can put as much lipstick on a chicken as you want, it's never going to look good!

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job.

Have as your center idea — elimination. Everything that takes your time from your business or your family is an extra tax on your strength. Eliminate every habit that holds you back, every practice that unfits you for progress, every person who depresses you, every move that is not necessary, every footless idea that crowds your brain.

Systems learn by removing parts, via negativa.*4

via negativa (acting by removing) is more powerful and less error-prone than via positiva (acting by addition

via negativa (acting by removing) is more powerful and less error-prone than via positiva (acting by additionfn1).

Systems learn by removing parts, via negativa.

Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Less is more and usually more effective.

8. Embrace waste.

There's a mobile app for almost anything you may want to do, any situation you confront.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." —Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician and philosopher

People are looking for efficient and convenient ways to simplify their life, save time, and make more money.

Kiss principle: Keep it simple, stupid.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly decisions you can make all day long - like what to eat or where we should meet - so I can focus on making real decisions. Because mental energy is a finite quantity.

Gone are the days when you could go to an orphanage or a centre and apply for adopting a child there. Everything is online now, and under one umbrella.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.