Quotes About Efficiency

Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.

Jet lag is for amateurs.

I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.

Travel light, Arrive quickly.

Do your homework in advance about the actual travel details so transportation issues do not define your holiday.

Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places.

Travel requires a great deal of energy - whether you go by car, by bus, by train or plane. We'll likely be using hydrogen as our main energy for transport.

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members

I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

Set out to do three or four things this year with gusto and excellence, rather than doing a dozen things just sufficiently. Trust me on this.

With high trust, success comes faster, better, and at lower cost.

Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.