Quotes About Efficiency

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

Every time Wal-Mart spends one dollar foolishly, it comes right out of our customers' pockets. Every time we save them a dollar, that puts us one more step ahead of the competition—which is where we always plan to be.

Watson, Sr., was running IBM, he decided they would never have more than four layers from the chairman of the board to the lowest level in the company. That may have been one of the greatest single reasons why IBM was successful.

Mechanical testing tempts us with the false promise of efficiency. It whispers that there is an easier, less costly, more scientific way. But the truth is that blackening circles only prepares students to blacken more circles in the future. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we will be redeemed from our craziness.

A well-paid four-hour workday will increase the number of workers.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk or a curate, while much less expense by way of show was required of him

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Only Technology Can Remove Inefficiencies And Bring Consumer Delight In A Century Old Physical Automobile Retailing, Cheaper, Faster And Better Than Any Other Approach.

Physical Automobile Dealerships Were Fine Around The Era When Henry Ford Invented The Assembly Line

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

Recent studies of recreational cyclists aged fifty-five to seventy-nine suggest they have the capacity to do everyday tasks very easily and efficiently because nearly all parts of their body are in remarkably good condition.15 The cyclists also scored high on tests measuring mental agility, mental health, and quality of life.

it saves bother to get an animal to walk to the slaughterhouse rather than having to drag it there. And

Doing diversity work has taught me that agreeing to something is one of the best ways of stopping something from happening. Agreeing to something is an efficient technique for stopping something because organizations can avoid the costs of disagreement.

Kitchen design experts recommend that there be at least four feet of space between each point of your work triangle (e.g., between your refrigerator and sink) but no more than nine feet across the furthest points (think about how inconvenient a ten-foot walk between your sink and stove would be!).

The friendship between officers is tarnished by the need for one or another to be promoted. The kindness of a captain is predicated on the obedience and efficiency of his underlings.

Develop more productivity with an increase in leadership skills.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

We are extremely vulnerable because we take too much time to implement the necessary measures. This is a painful process. When you go through a painful process - make it as short as possible

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.