Quotes About Efficiency

1. Break assignments into smaller pieces 2. If there is no progress, go to #1 and repeat.

Product creators are the true talent of any corporation, especially one claiming to bet on innovation. The other roles don't create products and should be there to serve those who do. A classic betrayal of this idea is when the IT department dictates to creatives what equipment they can use. If one group has to be inefficient, it should be the support group, not the creatives. If the supporting roles, including management, dominate, the quality of products can only suffer.

A Polish man is hired to paint lines on the highway. On the first day he paints ten miles, and his employer is amazed. On the second day he paints just five miles, and on the third day he paints only one mile of road. Disappointed, his boss asks, "What's the problem? Why are you painting less and less each day?" The Polish man replies, "Well, every day I have to walk farther and farther to get back to the paint bucket.

Q: What's the biggest problem working in a paperless office? A: Needing to shit.

This has the effect of forcing marketplaces to compete in latency. You end up with exactly what you have now—people spending millions (billions?) of dollars to save milliseconds (microseconds soon?). What an expensive and needless mess. You could probably find a cure for cancer in a year if you just reassigned all the smart people who are now working on this artificially created and otherwise useless problem.

What an expensive and needless mess. You could probably find a cure for cancer in a year if you just reassigned all the smart people who are now working on this artificially created and otherwise useless problem.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services ' it's actually a 'false choice.'

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Packing is my pet hate.

The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

I think we're living in a time when size is not a strategic advantage, necessarily.

Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.