Quotes About Efficiency

The ninth circle was where Hell did its accountancy. The demons within were ruthlessly efficient. All they cared about were profit and cost-effectiveness. Everything was a debit or credit, a gain or a loss. Their ultimate goal was to reduce the universe to a calculation, a final heartless equation in which every soul, living and dead, divine and damned, would serve in the Glorious Ultimate Dividend.

Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time.

There is nothing more disastrous than a committee of extremely able men.

He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?

Business strategies can interestingly be assimilated with medicinal drugs. There are no better or worse strategies. There are only adequately adopted business strategies or inappropriately selected and implemented strategies.

Si la désorganisation garantit l'échec, l'organisation ne garantit pas la réussite.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

Give me six minutes to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

What matters is the value people create, not the space they inhabit.

Productivity is just the means to the end. If you are not all intrinsically motivated maybe it's just the wrong project

Since I sleep fully clothed, I'm able to answer right away. By sleeping with your clothes on, you don't need to climb under the sheets. You don't need to disturb a perfectly made bed or even fold the bed back into the couch.

the law of parsimony.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

All this conditioning is designed to prepare us for the workforce, where we will be expected to follow the same rules, conform to the same expectations, and perform tasks efficiently without questioning our purpose. Keep in mind that governments make most of their income from employee taxes, so it benefits them by producing employees who will pay taxes and become the income source for the state.

There is nothing worse than a long, rambling text from a collaborator who uses a whole page to say what can be written in a few lines."

The fastest journey is achieved on foot

T]he efficiency of the individual is increased more by a far-reaching granting of freedom than by compulsion from above, and it must further prevent the process of natural selection, which is to promote the most efficient, the most able, and the most industrious, from being cut short.

La gran masa de un pueblo no se compone de filósofos y es principalmente para las masas para quienes la fe constituye la única base de una ideología moral. Los diversos sustitutos no han probado su eficiencia ni su conveniencia, para que se hubiera podido ver en ellos una provechosa compensación de las creencias religiosas existentes.

It's certainly better to be a little old-fashioned but honest and loyal, than to be over-sophisticated and modern, with inferior character, and thus typically ignorant and inefficient.

Human progress and human cultures are not founded by the multitude, they are the works of personal genius and personal efficiency

If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.