Quotes About Efficiency

By one estimate, U.S. output per worker hour was double Germany's and five times Japan's.

Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.

Why did so many smart people believe these laissez-fairey tales? It's a good question. Some of the blame surely goes to the excessive faith in free markets that was the elixir of the day. Some goes to economists who believed and extolled the efficient markets hypothesis—and taught it to their students, many of whom wound up as financial engineers on Wall Street.

When she was strong, she was unbeatable. When she was strong, she got things done.

I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.

Never plan to be exactly on time. Always plan to be early. Doing so will usually get you there just in time. -

Diana Delonzor

Think of many things. Do one. — Portuguese saying

It's the feeling that time is to be used efficiently and productively. Even though, you know really, that means if you can balance three spinning plates on sticks, you're rewarded with a fourth, then a fifth." A

She's smart and full of business," she said, "and she sure knows how to get things done. You, though." She nodded. "You a real human being.

It is, in the long run, a good thing that machines or robots take over activities they can do, freeing humans for the things only they can do.

Generally any task that can be measured by the metrics of productivity—output per hour—is a task we want automation to do. In short, productivity is for robots.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

Being a teacher taught me how to be organized, to have a game plan in English, History, Math. The same discipline carried over into coaching. If you are an efficient and effective coach, you start off every day with a plan. You don't just walk in there and roll out the ball. You've organized what you are going to do. You break down your offenses, your defenses, your individual skills.

There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team

But she was not of those who believe in the sanctity of handwork, however crude. There is no particular point in doing by hand what can be done as well and better by machine.

The real difficulty is not the lack of time; it is what we do with the time that we have.

It takes a lot of time and money to look this cheap, honey,

Don't ever be late. It's like proclaiming that your time is more important than someone else's.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

Once again, it must be reiterated that beliefs and practices that developed in response to earlier, and presumably different, environmental pressures tend to persist, and the result may come to be far less than efficient utilization of an environment

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

I never think at all when I write nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well

If someone had shown me a statement of Sawi grammar and asked me to guess the type of persons who developed it, I would have guessed a race of pedantic-philosopher types obsessed with fastidious concern for handling masses of detail efficiently.