Quotes About Efficiency

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

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I remembered Nero telling me once that smart people work, elegant people have smart people work for them.

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As he told Hill, he was simply following the "Eight 'P's," a mnemonic that had been drummed into them in the military: "Proper prior planning and preparation prevents piss-poor performance." The Real Heroes Are Dead Article from The New Yorker.

Prior preparation prevents poor performance.

There is much to be said for modern appliances in the kitchen, but there are times when we revert to primitive tools simply because they do the job so much better.

Be sure of the fact before you lose time in searching for a cause.

I can and do work 16-hour days but solely by choice now as I could sleep for a year and nothing would miss a beat only because I fought through my life plans every step of the way and steered clear of drama, bs and haters.

Sometimes no marketing is the best kind of marketing

Learn to automate the process for the cake you baked before baking your next cake

Time is limited and valuable in this world and those who understand this takes action

His famous example of the pin manufacturers makes this case. Smith explains how eighteen separate operations are employed to produce pins. Because of specialized technology and the division of labor, each employee could make 4,800 times more pins in a day than an individual could fabricate on his own.

As Tilly suggests, the important issue was "effectiveness (total output)," not "efficiency (the ratio of output to input)." In an increasingly violent world, the systems that predominated through five centuries of competition were necessarily those that facilitated the greatest access to resources needed to make war on a large scale.

Efficiency will become more important than the dictates of power in the organization of social institutions. This means that provinces and even cities that can effectively uphold property rights and provide for the administration of justice, while consuming few resources, will be viable sovereignties in the Information Age, as they generally have not been during the last five centuries.

Minho had taught Thomas that speaking only wasted energy, so he concentrated on his pace and his breaths.

His friend's response was almost instant; Bryson spent even more time than Michael online or in the Coffin—and typed like a secretary filled with three cups of coffee.

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

The American axe! It has made more real and lasting conquests than the sword of any warlike people that ever lived; but they have been conquests that have left civilization in their train instead of havoc and destruction…. A brief quarter of a century has seen these wonderful changes wrought; and at the bottom of them all lies this beautiful, well-prized, ready, and efficient implement, the American axe!

Making an espresso is a performance that lasts ninety seconds and then you're done. You go on to the next performance. You may get applause or you may get boos, and then you move on.

Unequal societies are not only the most violent; they are also the least productive.