Quotes About Efficiency

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

But replacing workers and making the remaining ones more productive are literally the same thing. If

Robotics is never yet got to where live brains can be altogether replaced, except in bureaucrats.

Great strategy is consummately practical.

Oh, what a pity to work very efficiently in a very inconsequential matters.

There is no substitute for smart work.

A dirty floor means a busy stove.

Good management is better than good income.

Good things come in small packages. #Economicpackage

To do two things at once is to do neither.

It is a case of PRODUCING THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF GOODS NECESSARY TO THE WELL-BEING OF ALL, WITH THE LEAST POSSIBLE WASTE OF HUMAN ENERGY.

Give the people a free hand, and in ten days the food service will be conducted with admirable regularity. Only those who have never seen the people hard at work, only those who have passed their lives buried among documents, can doubt it.

Wu Wei is a delight in knowing that everything will be all right. It is not refusing to do anything, it is refusing to do insignificant things. Wu Wei is efficiency. It is the precondition of Wu Bu Wei. Wu Wei requires giving up secondary matters and aiming for the key matters. You can only Wu Bu Wei because you Wu Wei. The modern meets the ancient. Wu Wei is the secret of health. Only if you abandon anxiety can you do anything with a healthy mind and body.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Let others consume their efforts in pointless trifles. Let others drain their energy in futile worries.

A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries....

Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone.

that aspect which a whole population assumes when organized for a mechanical purpose.

giving place to merely mechanical organization. But you see signs of it everywhere.

At the time, he had got rid of her so efficiently and so suavely that she had felt almost reassured even as she was being left behind.

I'm really quite efficient you know'. He shook his head over me. 'Too much conscience. You must find yourself very difficult to live with

Congress votes for things the military doesn't want, and planes and other weaponry that cost a lot but don't work.

And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.