Quotes About Efficiency

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

I'd better make hay while the sun shines.

When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all the time. But I can whip out a BlackBerry and tweet. I keep a constant diary of where I'm at and why I'm there.

You know, all these fancy, detailed diets work only if you are sitting at home doing nothing. If you are working, where is the time to whip up food again and again?

A coach should go to practice with a whistle and I just clip a pen on it. It's really not complicated at all.

There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.

I travel very light. I never want to check a bag. My only standards are a few sets of clothes, my white sneakers, my blue backpack, and my laptop. I don't have any special things otherwise.

My liberal friends love to dismiss Reagan. You know, they'll say something like, 'Oh, didn't he, like, only read one-page memos when he was in the White House?' Well, that's just good managerial practice. I mean, Franklin Roosevelt made people write one-page memos.

One the most efficient ways to combat gun violence is to prevent criminals from obtaining guns in the first place.

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

Lyft Line is our biggest step in bringing down prices... We've been thinking about this ever since we launched Lyft. We always intended to do it.

Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use.

When you have more competition, you have better products and lower prices.

Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.

I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that's so dated: It's not about effort, it's about outcomes.

We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.

Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

There is a natural link between the effective running of my businesses and the effective direction of philanthropic funds. I apply business principles to my philanthropic work so that maximum value is given to the causes I support.

One of the key principles we have at Amazon is 'by a fraction.' We like to get things done quickly.

It's cheaper to buy and use and place ads on Facebook than it is to buy print and radio.

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.