Quotes About Efficiency

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

I'm obsessed with being on time. If you say, "Let's meet up at 10 a.m.," I will be there 15 minutes early. Always.

One of my best days was the one on which I persuaded a group of seamen from the Archipelago to join in a single corporation in order to deal directly with retailers in the towns. I have never felt myself more usefully employed as a ruler.

I have a habit of taking instant dislikes to people. Simply because it saves time.

Now we are less interested in equipping and refining thought, more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield measurable enhancements of material well-being—for those who create and master them, at least. Now

Like many business men of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient.

may ask me anything." "How long would it take to get a closed stove installed

We have to learn to do more ministry with less money.

Only the inept are always at their best.

Busy work often looks more like work than real work does

why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On account of the book, mostly. Learning something while everyone else was wasting time. Like working at night.

Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

Don't confuse activity with action.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance, as they say in the army - and I always, always want to be ready. Just like Bigfoot.

Line cooking done well is a beautiful thing to watch. It's a high-speed collaboration resembling, at its best, ballet or modern dance.

The whole system is designed for uniformity and ease—under worst-case-scenario circumstances

That chef was right: messy station equals messy mind.

Most of the professionals I know have for years been retiring their Wusthofs and replacing them with the lightweight, easy-to-sharpen and relatively inexpensive vanadium steel Global knives, a very good Japanese product which has — in addition to its many other fine qualities — the added attraction