Quotes About Streamlining

Organize your project, your life, and your organization around the minimum. What's the smallest market you can survive on?

If we can measure it, we can do it faster. If we can put it in a manual, we can outsource it. If we can outsource it, we can get it cheaper.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

At the end of the day, saving money is really about efficiency. You simplify your life, and its overall quality inevitably gets better.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Balance flow, not capacity.

Producing a quality product efficiently: that must be the goal. It sure sounds good. "Quality and efficiency." Those are two nice words. Kind of like "Mom and apple pie.

Increase throughput while simultaneously reducing both inventory and operating expense.

So the way to express the goal is this? Increase throughput while simultaneously reducing both inventory and operating expense.

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

What's the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

Adapting a book is the most difficult thing because half the time you are wondering what to remove.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Like any decent researcher, I throw away 90% of my research.

I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.

curricula must be an exercise in triage, in making hard choices about what gets thrown out of the story, so that the essentials can survive. . . . We need to be willing to identify those things that every American student needs to know and insist upon them . . . while paring away vigorously at the rest.47

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

If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

A few fat files are better than a lot of thin ones.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.