Quotes About Efficiency

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important

Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.

Save the time of the reader, for it is valuable

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

It is an interesting balance in trying to find players to make your team really good and at the same time running a financially sound operation. That is the challenge for every team.

Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.