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Quotes About Efficiency

Because if you don't know how to manage time, time can rule you like a tyrant.
~ Frank Partnoy
A man might find for a moment that he was unable to work, but that's exactly the right time to remember his past accomplishments and to consider that later on, when the obstacles has been removed, he's bound to work all the harder and more efficiently.
~ Franz Kafka
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
~ Franz Kafka
Les avocats sont bien loin de vouloir introduire dans le système judiciaire quelque amélioration que ce soit, alors que tout accusé, même le plus simple d'esprit – et c'est très caractéristique – commence toujours, dès son premier contact avec la justice, par méditer des projets de réforme, gaspillant ainsi un temps et des forces qu'il pourrait employer beaucoup plus utilement.
~ Franz Kafka
You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.
~ Phil McGraw
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
~ Viggo Mortensen
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
~ Warren Bennis
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
~ Richard Whately
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
~ Nikola Tesla
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
~ Bruce Lee
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Blitzscaling is always managerially inefficient - and it burns through a lot of capital quickly. But you have to be willing to take on these inefficiencies in order to scale up. That's the opposite of what large organizations optimize for.
~ Reid Hoffman
It's been a part of my game for life. It's tougher to finish in the lane so you've got to find different areas to score efficiently and the mid-range contested shot is a shot a lot of teams will live with. And it's a shot I'm willing to live with as well just because I've gotten so many shots at it and I'm comfortable with it.
~ C. J. McCollum
Epic production has less to do with your willpower and more to do with the routines you install. Get those right, and you'll enjoy exponential results automatically.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Lunch is for wimps.
~ Oliver Stone
Fast learners win.
~ Eric Schmidt
When teams train now, it is about what they do with the ball and, if they lose it, how quickly they press to win it back.
~ Lothar Matthaus
Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.
~ Tim Bishop
You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bulbs at home or just be conscious of switching off lights. If you can afford to drive an SUV, maybe you can afford to make a donation to a wind farm or plant some trees. It's all about balance.
~ Orlando Bloom
The wind industry has made major strides over the past two decades, and they have proven their industry to be efficient and self-sustainable. There is no need for the taxpayer to continue to subsidize a wind start-up tax credit.
~ James Lankford
If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
IT is permeating more industries. Moore's Law knocks down simulation capabilities. We don't need wind tunnels anymore, for example. You can run experiments more quickly.
~ Steve Jurvetson
What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
~ Ramez Naam
Wind developers have realised the importance of transparent method of price discovery, which was demonstrated in the solar sector. They realise that bidding brings in efficiency, and tariff is right-sized.
~ Piyush Goyal