Quotes About Efficiency

Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work.

I love sophisticated algorithms that help consumers in a tangible way.

When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

It's easy to reckon that the oomph to hurl even a Smart Car-size spacecraft to another star at, say, 20 percent the speed of light (and land it when it arrives) is the energy contained in 50 billion gallons of gasoline. The tank's not big enough.

What mattered in the cold war was weight - how big are your missiles? How heavy are your tanks? What matters in globalisation is speed. How fast is your modem? How good are you communications?

Jonsen shuffled rapidly up and down the deck like a shuttle, passing his woof backwards and forwards through the real business of the ship.

Lots of IT organizations have metrics that say, 'We're 99.99 percent on uptime, we're fast.' The plumbing is wonderful, but nobody cares.

But the pure mathematician's goal is to have a good time, not to be efficient; and machine-building is a lot more fun than problem-solving.

Proporcionar todas as formas de autosserviço gera opções, economia, rapidez e vendas.

Si aprovechamos bien tan sólo el 20 % de nuestro tiempo, no nos quedaremos cortos.

Avoid hard work. Don't push water uphill. Be very selective in what you do. Have a great life.

And very profitable for LEK. The 'kids' were cheap. They worked long hours with no payment for overtime. We charged a lot for their work. Competitors didn't have our bottom-heavy staff structure, so couldn't imitate us economically.

A melhor maneira de examinar a lucratividade de sua empresa é dividindo-a em segmentos competitivos.

In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all the unimportant opportunities. "The Apple Marketing Philosophy," 19771

The way to create something great is to create something simple.

80 percent of products, or customers or employees, are only contributing 20 percent of profits; that there is great waste; that the most powerful resources of the company are being held back by a majority of much less effective resources; that profits could be multiplied if more of the best sort of products could be sold, employees hired, or customers attracted (or convinced to buy more from the firm).

being mostly correct and decisive typically yields better results than taking the time to figure out what is perfectly correct.

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

Anything that just yielded an average degree of satisfaction for the time or effort should be discarded

The site had to be simple, fast, and intuitive.

We used to joke that the ideal Amazon site would not show a search box, navigation links, or lists of things you could buy. Instead, it would just display a giant picture of one book, the next book you want to buy. —Greg

The focus should be on the customer, not on the Web site. It's pretty obvious that a simple Web site is easier to use than one with of a bunch of fancy gadgets. He was adamant about that.