Quotes About Efficiency

Indolence saves us from prolixity and thereby from the shamelessness inherent in production.

Great men [women] never complain about the lack of time. Alexander the Great and John Wesley accomplished everything they did in twenty-four-hour days. FRED SMITH

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

The first question to ask about your next meeting; is this meeting really necessary?

Not only does a bureaucracy thus tend to under-government, in point of quality; it tends to over-government, in point of quantity.

The dignified parts of Government are those which bring it force—which attract its motive power. The efficient parts only employ that power. The comely parts of a Government HAVE need, for they are those upon which its vital strength depends. They may not do anything definite that a simpler polity would not do better; but they are the preliminaries, the needful prerequisites of ALL work. They raise the army, though they do not win the battle.

It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.

The English not only possess better machines for moving nature, but are themselves better machines.

We could not do every day out of our own heads all we have to do. We should accomplish nothing, for all our energies would be frittered away in minor attempts at petty improvement. One man, too, would go off from the known track in one direction, and one in another; so that when a crisis came requiring massed combination, no two men would be near enough to act together.

Doubtless, if all subjects of the same Government only thought of what was useful to them, and if they all thought the same thing useful, and all thought that same thing could be attained in the same way, the efficient members of a constitution would suffice, and no impressive adjuncts would be needed. But the world in which we live is organised far otherwise.

Space has failed us, and we must be unmeaningly brief.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

The words fell as the axe of a skillful woodman falls at the root of a young tree and brings it down at a single blow.

The heavy curtain of Bureaucracy was drawn between the right thing to be done and the right man to do it.

Let us leave hearts out of the question. Business is business, and business is not carried on with sentimentality like romances.

That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done

It always seems like such a waste preparing a meal for one,' Nakajima said. 'A waste of food and a waste of time. But I don't feel that way at all when I'm cooking for two.

That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done

Pity they didn't devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.

It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting--corruption and favoritism, mostly--endemic to the system.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

more space for their clothes. I can't tell you how many times I've had nowhere to hang a single damn suit because a woman's closet was so stuffed. Hire a closet planner. She'll think you're brilliant." "She hired one herself a few years back. I need something she hasn't thought of herself.