Quotes About Efficiency

Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.

I get out of bed, brush my teeth, wash my face, put on moisturiser, put on clothes, and leave. Four minutes. I like to shower at night so I can roll out of bed.

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

I'm not very romantic. My idea of romance is more practical - like washing the car.

You always have to be ready. When I'm washing dishes, I have to have a towel ready so I can dry my hands and push the record button on my phone.

I'd like to be more decisive. I can take an hour to choose between two brands of washing powder in the supermarket.

All roads were one, surely, even if their textures differed. Was she as varied, a part of herself as rough and tutted as the Goreddi roads, and some other part as efficient as the Ninysh? She often felt, early in the morning, when the world seemed most malleable, that she contained these potentials, and more. It wasn't merely that she could be anything, but that she was everything, all at once.

You could give lessons on putting up a tent. I've never seen one go up so fast." Okay. I'd never actually watched one go up. It wasn't exactly on my list of the top hundred-and-one things to see before I died.

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

Apart from the added efficiency, the willingness to be ruthless helps innovation. Past experience and relationships are of little value in driving radical innovation: indeed,

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

The best boss is the one who bosses the least.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

That man is idle who can do something better.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.

The leader must be in charge of getting things done by running the three core processes—picking other leaders, setting the strategic direction, and conducting operations.

Organizations don't execute unless the right people, individually and collectively, focus on the right details at the right time.

Execution not only ensures efficient use of resources in a credit and cash-starved world, but also provides the feedback loop needed for the business to adjust to changes—big or small—in the external world.

The heart of execution lies in the three core processes: the people process, the strategy process, and the operations process.

Over the years I've asked many of them what was the greatest mistake they ever made in the area of people. The most common answer? "Waiting too long" to remove a direct report who was not matched to the job.

The report first carefully outlined the arguments for and against linguistic states. It urged a 'balanced approach' which recognized 'linguistic homogeneity as an important factor conducive to administrative convenience and efficiency' yet not 'as an exclusive and binding principle, over-riding all other considerations'. Among these other considerations were, of course, the unity and security of India as a whole.33