Quotes About Efficiency

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

You know you have had a productive day when you run out of semen.

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

Being productive is an essential element of happiness

Every dollar you spend on training saves you two dollars on advertising.

thinking divorced from action lacks productivity

Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full impact of World War II? Clear-cut teenage answer: we won.

Squeezing the most out of life takes a little executive planning. I used to say to the children when they were growing up, "If you have twelve things to do, and twelve hours to do them in, don't spend the first ten hours doing just one thing or you'll find yourself in an awful mess at the end of the day. Plan. And everything will get done.

For Porter, competitive advantage is not about trouncing rivals, it's about creating superior value. Moreover, the term is both concrete and specific. If you have a real competitive advantage, it means that compared with rivals, you operate at a lower cost, command a premium price, or both.

Performance, Porter argues, must be defined in terms that reflect the economic purpose every organization shares: to produce goods or services whose value exceeds the sum of the costs of all the inputs. In other words, organizations are supposed to use resources effectively. The financial measure that best captures this idea is return on invested capital (ROIC).

Your cost advantage might come from lower operating costs or from using capital more efficiently (including working capital), or both.

Seeing that gate turnarounds are a significant cost driver, you would then dive a level deeper, to the many specific subactivities involved in gate turnarounds. Here you'd be looking for ways to lower your costs without sacrificing customer value. This is how you drive an even greater wedge between your performance and that of your rivals.

While there is absolute improvement in OE, there is relative improvement for no

At twenty-nine you can't waste your time reading.

Speed is not your fastest, but your slowest man. No back can run faster than his interference.

It always amazes me, how swiftly problems can be solved, once you start cutting things off people.

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

Everything in the Shaker community was built for service. Nothing was put there without a purpose, and there was no wasted frills. Nothing was built or done just because it was pleasing to the eye.

Aunt Love said no housework was ever wasted, that it had to be done sooner or later anyway, but Jocie noticed the sooner you did it the sooner you had to do it again.

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.

if her hands were full and she was wearing pants with no pockets.

She was one of those people who seemed to regard busyness as a contest you could win. p. 246

Sometimes the best plays are performed behind the scenes