Quotes About Efficiency

If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

Ajax was spending too much money; they were buying players that were too expensive. If you get 100 per cent, you can't spend 120 per cent. It's quite easy.

We have got a - we've got a good federal work force, but we have too many people, and we're paying them too much money.

Your success starts with how you are able to get clients in the door, get their business, and leave them satisfied. If you, personally, have to spend too much time doing that, you have simply bought yourself a job, not an enterprise. Take hints from success stories all around you!

Working from live models is too much trouble; it takes too much time.

People in politics tend to spend far too much time on higher profile issues affecting few people and too little time on such basic processes that affect thousands or millions and which we know how to do much better.

I hate spending too much time idling around.

The musket, always a muzzleloader, took minutes to reload; an archer could aim and fire up to a dozen arrows in a minute. Muskets required continual cleaning and repair; bows were quickly made and easily maintained.

A sharp knife is the best tool you can have in the kitchen.

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

Whether you write down your to-do lists in a notebook or use a tool like Evernote, to-do lists can be a real life-saver, since it reduces the stress of trying to remember things like a meeting or what you need to pick up at the grocery store.

I have a SIM card ejector tool everywhere I go. It's probably not a normal thing to have, but as a guy who's moving between phones often, I kind of have to have one.

This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.

We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.

When meetings are the norm - the first resort, the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every problem - they no longer work.

You can get more stuff done with Facebook than any other tool that we know of, and we'd like to make that available to the whole world.

We have found that using Facebook as a work tool makes our work day more efficient.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.