Quotes About Efficiency

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions.

I pick what are my priorities and I limit those priorities to less than five in my life and really in those particular areas put in the energy to try to make good choices.

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.

We mustn't waste time; for that's the stuff life's made of.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Eliminate multitasking to learn faster and think better.

To learn faster, chunk, sequence, connect, dump, practice, and prioritize.

According to sales management expert Lee Salz, it takes a minimum of eight months for new salespeople to perform at the same level as their tenured colleagues—even if they're experienced sellers.

In Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us,* the authors state that distractions consume an average of 2.1 hours per day.