Quotes About Streamlining

He revels in all the empowering conveniences that the iPod offers, like being able to 'correct' albums by removing their weak tracks (even on Beatles LPs, where he removes all the Ringo songs)

Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap?

creating the Law Enforcement Support Program, an agency headquartered at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. This new agency was charged with streamlining the transfer of military equipment to civilian police departments.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

We only invest in businesses that reduce labor.

Making everything more efficient should make everybody happier.

Government should do a few things, and do them right.

Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know have all agreed.

It's not about working harder; it's about working the system.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Amplification through simplification.

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

We're looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time. Many agencies have forgotten how to deregulate. It's been so long since somebody asked them to look backwards.

Builder.ai wants to make software as 'easy as ordering pizza

As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.

When in doubt, simplify.

The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

Stop production so that production never has to stop.

which of our efforts are value-creating and which are wasteful?

Obama also urged streamlining overlapping regulatory agencies (without getting into specifics),

We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.

New Hampshire has led the nation in streamlining government regulation to allow job-creators the opportunity to grow and expand.

Streamlining New Hampshire's regulatory framework is a key priority of my administration.

If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.