Quotes About Efficiency

things that get scheduled are the things that get done.

work on one high-value activity at a time instead of relentlessly multitasking—and do so in a quiet environment.

El tiempo es la mercancía más preciada y no es renovable • Centrarse en las prioridades y mantener el equilibrio • Simplificar la vida

Un tiempo bien organizado es la señal más clara de una mente bien organizada. SIR ISAAC PITMAN

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind. Sir Isaac Pitman

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.

Simplify your life. Strip away all that is unimportant – then focus, focus, focus. You'll be surprised how good you will then get at being great.

las horas que el 95 % del mundo desperdicia son las que la élite del 5 % atesora. Las 5 de la mañana es la hora en la que las distracciones son menores y en la que la paz y la predisposición son mayores.

Hören Sie auf ihre Zeit managen zu wollen, sondern managen Sie vielmehr ihren Fokus.

Instead of trying to get people to work harder, make their job easier.

systematic tools for getting results, whether in business or international diplomacy, summed up in Beyond Machiavelli and Getting It DONE;

A compact organization lets all of us spend our time managing the business rather than managing each other.

Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do anything I cannot be stopped from doing. Which sometimes entails not getting caught at it

a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.

The four to six young aides usually slept in one room, often two to a bed, then worked long days in a single room with chairs crowded around small wooden tables. Washington typically kept a small office off to the side. During busy periods, the aides sometimes wrote and copied one hundred letters per day, an exhausting grind

Hamilton warned that "a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.

The time had come to streamline operations, impose guidance, and attain new efficiencies.

Don't overwork like Coster just because you can and like to do it.

Orders to handle commodity trades poured in almost faster than he could handle them.

Has anyone given you the law of these offices? No? It is this: nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it.… As soon as you can, get some one whom you can rely on, train him in the work, sit down, cock up your heels, and think out some way for the Standard Oil to make some money.

As with industrial methods, Rockefeller broke down cycling into its component parts then perfected each movement.

Rejecting a simple grid for the capital as tiresome and insipid, he argued that such a pattern made sense only for flat cities. Not only would diagonal streets provide contrast and variety, but they would serve as express lanes, shortening the distance between places. Town squares would be situated where diagonal avenues crossed.

Before too long, he realized that refining was the critical point where he could exert maximum leverage over the industry.