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Quotes About Efficiency

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.
~ Ron Suskind
There is no such thing as a dysfunctional organization, because every organization is perfectly aligned to achieve the results it currently gets.
~ Ronald A. Heifetz
He believed "the leading rule"21 for any lawyer was "diligence." Lincoln counseled, "Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done today.… Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.
~ Ronald C. White Jr.
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector
~ Ronald Reagan
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
~ Ronald Reagan
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
~ Ronald Reagan
Power is the ability to get things done.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball (Source: brainyquote dot com) .
~ Lucille Ball
intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability 'to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly'. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that, if you need a new and unfamiliar VCR programmed in a hurry, you commandeer any small passing child to do it.
~ Lynne Truss
Efficiency involves attentiveness to those things that must be dealt with before they become such overwhelming problems that they cause far more damage than necessary.
~ M. Scott Peck
If we feel ourselves valuable, then we will feel our time to be valuable, and if we feel our time to be valuable, then we will want to use it well.
~ M. Scott Peck
It is not wise to mistake great effort for productive effort
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
não tendo alcançado nada caminhando em linha reta, procurou ver se alcançava caminhando por linha curva. Às vezes é o caminho mais curto. (Linha reta e linha curva)
~ Machado de Assis
You waste your energy going up and down instead of going forward.' She continued to walk calmly beside Felix.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
the logic of the inverted-U curve is that the same strategies that work really well at first stop working past a certain point
~ Malcolm Gladwell
our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Imagine that you are a doctor and you suddenly learn that you'll see twenty patients on a Friday afternoon instead of twenty-five, while getting paid the same. Would you respond by spending more time with each patient? Or would you simply leave at six-thirty instead of seven-thirty and have dinner with your kids?
~ Malcolm Gladwell
whenever he goes to the doctor's office is that forty cents of every health-care dollar goes to either fraud or waste.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
the systems we set up to determine who gets ahead aren't particularly efficient.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
n good decision making, frugality matters; take a complex problem and reduce it to its simplest elements.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Captain, the weather radar has helped us a lot.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
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~ Malcolm Gladwell
French and German manufacturing plants that he
~ Malcolm Gladwell
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~ Malcolm Gladwell