Quotes About Efficiency

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

Do not waste time idling or thinking after you have set your goals

And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.

Pareto's Principle: you generally spend 80% of your time on 20% of the project.

The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

Early is on time and on time is late.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.