Quotes About Efficiency

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

Ningún marino de hoy perdería el tiempo reparando la parte que ya no sirve para navegar, sino que más bien la reemplazaría con una pieza de repuesto.

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

Lincoln on Grant: He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

Hãy cho tôi 6 gi? ?? ??n h? má»™t cái cây. Tôi s? dùng 4 gi? ??u tiên ?? mài rìu

If you ask me to cut down a tree I'll spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.

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

There is a story about Henry Ford that dramatizes the "just enough" philosophy nicely: Ford used to send his people out to scour the scrap heaps of America looking for old Ford engines. Dragging them back to Detroit, they would look for the parts that hadn't worn out and then downgrade the specifications to save money.

The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour.

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

todas las demás artes y manufacturas las consecuencias de la división del trabajo son semejantes a las que se dan en esta industria tan sencilla, aunque en muchas de ellas el trabajo no puede ser así subdividido, ni reducido a operaciones tan sencillas. De todas formas, la división del trabajo ocasiona en cada actividad, en la medida en que pueda ser introducida, un incremento proporcional en la capacidad productiva del trabajo.

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.

must necessarily be small; and those employed in every different branch of the work can often be collected into the same workhouse, and placed at once under the view of the spectator. In those great manufactures, on the contrary, which are destined to supply the great wants of the great body of the people, every different branch of the work employs so great a number of workmen that it is impossible to collect them all into the same workhouse

Her tedbirli aile baÅŸkan? için baÅŸ kural, evde yap?lmas?, sat?n al?nmas?ndan pahal?ya geleni, hiçbir zaman evde yapmaya kalkmamakt?r.

doctrine of natural liberty. Smith believed that "man's self-interest is God's providence," and held that if government abstained from interfering with free competition, industrial problems would work themselves out and the practical maximum of efficiency would be reached.

Each individual becomes more expert in his own peculiar branch, more work is done upon the whole, and the quantity of science is considerably increased by it.

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