Quotes About Efficiency

I feel many times we do all the hard work, but in the absence of smart work, we do not get the desired results.

The biggest boss has the clearest desk.

You're sitting in the car for many, many minutes a day. Can that be part of your new office? Can it be your new desk, a place where you actually get work done? We believe it can.

I work from home a lot. I think I get as much work done at the office as at home, and I'm used to working with people who don't work in the office. I don't really care where they are, even if they're on a banana leaf somewhere. If they deliver their work, I am completely fine. I don't need someone sitting at their desk to produce.

The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things.

I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time.

I choose roles where I do not have to devote a lot of time.

There's always so much stuff to do. I work best when my diary just says 'MNEK, MNEK, MNEK.'

The V50 is a genuinely great car, even as a diesel.

One of the advantages of something like Slack is that I tap on the app icon, and it's just the people at my company and just the people I work with. There's a strong boundary there which aids in comprehension. It's one less molecule of glucose in my brain to manage it all.

One advantage that I think Slack has for most people who use it is, you pull out your phone, you look at the home screen, there's the Slack icon. You know when you tap this one, it's all the people you work with, and it's only the people you work with. And that's a big advantage.

We can get rid of red tape.

To me, every decision needn't be a 'big-bang' reform but a signal of proactive decision-making and removal of red tape and bureaucracy.

I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

We have to cut the red tape, eliminate barriers, and reduce bureaucracy - for all housing, for everyone.

I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.

It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.

The power of data is being able to be much more efficient with who you target and who you talk to and what you talk to them about. If you can gain that sort of very surgical efficiency, particularly in elections where you just need one more vote in order to win an election, yeah, absolutely, it can play a very significant role.

I say this every time I get interviewed, I just try to get my shots on target. If they go in, they go in.

We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in the equation, who can cause the precision munitions to go precisely where they should go, pays a huge dividend.

The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

When you set the right targets, aspirations, and you work efficiently and diligently, the numbers happen.

Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

Your to-do list should include items that need to be accomplished for the month, the week, and each day. You must then ask yourself how much time you need to block off to achieve each task. Time blocking allows you to minimize distractions and to maximize your efficiency as you work to complete this list.