Quotes About Efficiency

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets.

Turn down the thermostat. Let the air be a touch cold rather than a touch hot. Others can choose to wear extra clothing if desired. This also improves alertness and saves money.

That was the definition of management—getting others to do your work for you. And we were the others.

Para multiplicar el tiempo necesitamos tener más presencia de Dios. Entonces trabajaremos con más paz e intensidad y con más ganas de hacer bien las cosas. Nuestro tiempo se multiplicará como resultado porque hacemos las cosas bien, con más interés y ganas de hacerlo correctamente. De esta forma nos distraeremos menos y perderemos menos el tiempo».

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies--in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese--or at least manage like them.

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on

Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.

Do a few simple things really well, instead of a lot of complicated maneuvers that can go wrong in the heat of battle.

And when there's no point to something, the best idea is not to do it.

he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.

how important speed in scene-changes and economy of superfluous decoration was in mounting Shakespeare's plays to their best advantage,

Speed and simplicity: these are the keywords to overcome the enemy.

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.

Everybody gets the same hours in a day; It's really a matter of how you use them.

supporting each other in a joint effort. Discuss ways to prevent time wasting in areas of your department that seem especially inefficient. Set up an informal forum, in which your staff can share their time-saving tricks. Some people have a natural sense of how to use time effectively, and everyone can benefit from their wisdom. Don't forget to offer your own suggestions. Then draft a time-management

Crystallizing my feelings about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle than tennis. It is easier than badminton, cheaper than polo. It is better exercise than bowls, quicker than cricket, less boring than jogging, drier than swimming, safer than hang gliding.

once computers gain good language understanding and we can speak to them, then reading and writing are going to seem cumbersome'.

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

A newer model, "allostasis," proposes that efficient regulation requires anticipating needs and preparing to satisfy them before they arise.