Quotes About Streamlining

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

System: Save yourself time, energy and money.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Redundancy is my favourite business strategy.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

What happens to this kind of business when the data superhighway arrives? . . . No sales force, no inventory costs, no royalties to Nintendo or Sega, no marketing costs, no advertising costs, no executive parking spaces. This is a new and exciting business model, not just for games, and not even just for software, but for a host of products and services that can be sold or delivered via an electronic underground.

Good things happen when you narrow your focus.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

We don't throw more people at problems, we chop problems down until they can be carried across the finish line by teams of three

Management scholar Peter Drucker nailed it decades ago when he said "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Management scholar Peter Drucker nailed it decades ago when he said "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." Bam!

Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort.

When things aren't working, the natural inclination is to throw more at the problem. More people, time, and money. All that ends up doing is making the problem bigger. The right way to go is the opposite direction: Cut back.

Plantéatelo así: si tuvieras que arrancar tu negocio en dos semanas, ¿qué dejarías para más tarde? Es curioso cómo una pregunta como ésta te obliga a concentrar tus energías. De pronto te das cuenta de que hay cantidad de cosas que no necesitas. Y que ahora te parece evidente lo que realmente es imprescindible.

It's the stuff you leave out that matters. So constantly look for things to remove, simplify, and streamline. Be a curator. Stick to what's truly essential.

So do less. Your project won't suffer nearly as much as you fear. In fact, there's a good chance it'll end up even better. You'll be forced to make tough calls and sort out what truly matters.

The more simple you can make it allows your people to get really focused.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.