Quotes About Efficiency

You're gonna find a common theme among my favorite beauty products: I don't like those little sheer things. If I'm putting makeup on, I want it to do the job quickly.

I made lists of lists of lists, then started all over again. And if I did something that wasn't on a list, I would promptly write it on one and cross it out, with the feeling of having at least accomplished something.

Algorithm Characteristics

by leaving out the vowels, it had the great advantage of reducing the number of signs to just over twenty.

Las estructuras gubernamentales de México están muy lejos de esa eficiencia gerencial y están demasiado contaminadas por modalidades corruptas, paternalistas o corporativas de gestión como para funcionar sustentadas únicamente por una nueva cultura gerencial y mercadotécnica.

fixing accountability will be the low-hanging fruit for optimizing performance in business for at least the next decade. Accountability

In software, you don't want to release a huge chunk of code only to find out something's wrong with it. You release small bite-sized chunks so you can pick up problems quickly.

The only real way to measure progress, the only real way to see if activity has any real teeth is how that activity ties to the Key Results the company is after. Activity doesn't matter, it's all about results.

Division of labor tends to bring with it a division of responsibility that can distance everyone from the one factor they all share: results.

The more concrete and simple your goal, the better.

Any method of negotiation may be fairly judged by three criteria: It should produce a wise agreement if agreement is possible. It should be efficient. And it should improve or at least not damage the relationship between the parties.

simplification, 80–20 style, leads to more business as usual.

go slow to go fast.

only twenty-four hours in a day. I think

If you get it out of the way, it leaves time for more interesting things," Angela said. "If you don't get it out of the way, then you feel distracted and a little guilty and the interesting things aren't nearly as interesting because you're worrying about what you should be doing rather than what you are doing.

On a basic level, there are three general methods to simplifying your life: stopping expansion, reining in your routine, and reducing clutter.

The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical.

Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.

Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you foresee that you need them.

software people are terrible at estimating, because humans are terrible at estimating. Let's not just try harder. Let's find a better way.

Always work on the highest possible value next.

we want value, we want value soon, and we want highest value first.

It's amazing that people don't understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.