Quotes About Efficiency

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye.

produced eighteen thousand tanks, almost fifty thousand tank diesel engines, and more than seventeen million units of ammunition.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

To pursue radical ideas, he has to be a radical loss-cutter. Every dollar they save by getting to no quickly is a dollar they can spend on something that could change the world.

Monkeys and pedestals boils down to some very good advice: Figure out the hard thing first. Try to solve that as quickly as possible. Beware of false progress.

To make these unlesses most effective, we need to create strong precommitment contracts that set out how we're going to follow through on those kill criteria. Then, to make sure that we're picking the unlesses that are going to get us to the fastest answer about whether the thing we're doing is worth pursuing, we need to do the work of identifying monkeys and pedestals.

Be picky about what you stick to. Persevere in the things that matter, that bring you happiness, and that move you toward your goals. Quit everything else, to free up those resources so you can pursue your goals and stop sticking to things that slow you down.

Organization, the watchword of women everywhere, magazines overflowing with advice, save time, do this, that and the other... but it's really a method of sticking yourself with the most work possible in the least amount of time without pain or suffering because that would bother those around you.

In a related vein, the third principle: whenever possible, we should seek to productively alter our own state when engaging in mental labor.

Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.

And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs hear all this talk about profitability and realize they need to lower their burn. So, they just start chopping off perks and people.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

At a European auto show, I had someone from a German car company come up to me and say the Karma should cost $125,000, not $87,900, but our development process lets us lower the costs. I guarantee it's profitable.

I admire Arsenal very much, and part of that is that they are profitable.

If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits deteriorate in a way that makes us less attractive to investors.

When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.