Quotes About Efficiency

A lot of times, people find themselves in a meeting where the primary purpose is to receive information, and that's a poor use of people's time. Those meetings can be easily dispensed with and can be an email instead that people read in their own time.

With Gear, you're able to make calls and receive calls without ever taking your phone out of your pocket.

Be sure to read a recipe all the way through before you cook. The time it saves you in the long run is invaluable.

The thing with my recipes is, I don't have hours to faff about in the kitchen. My recipes are all 15, 20 minute, chop it up and stick it in the oven.

My recipes are simple, easy to do, but elegant. I have no time to fuss around with measuring cups.

The speech recognition is now good enough that I dictate emails on my phone rather than type them in. It's not perfect, but it's good enough that it changes how I interact with my phone.

If you watch most quarterbacks in the league, if you take more than two hitches, there's a good chance you'll be sacked. By recognizing things, it allows you to get to your fourth or fifth read on your second hitch and get the ball out of your hand.

A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast.

We rarely write in the studio. Everything's already completely arranged before we go in. That way, we can really focus on getting the recording right.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.

Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.

That's been the secret to 'Gas Monkey': Move fast. I opened the first restaurant within a year and a half. Most people wait five years. I always move quickly, and in today's market, no matter what you're in, you can recover from a mistake faster than you can recover from not doing.

There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All!

Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them.

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.

Investing in rail is an easy way to reduce congestion, cost, and energy consumption and make our producers more competitive.

Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of available jobs.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.