Quotes About Efficiency

When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'

Eating American-style, you put the knife down and clang. Continental is silent and efficient.

The armed forces are paying a lot more attention to the use of energy. The Air Force has realized that the paint on planes is heavy, so there are going to be a lot more silver planes, or planes painted in a less heavy way, so that you are using less fuel to get from point A to point B.

Getting silver and gold out of junk machinery was quick to be learnt by others.

Both TV and movies seem to be produced in a more similar way as time goes on. It used to be that movies were much bigger productions on every level and took much longer to shoot. I liked that. But with the advent of digital, everything can be done much quicker and cheaper, and that seems to be the goal of most movies and TV these days.

I'm a mom. I work. I have a house to clean, things to organize. We all have certain similar needs, and I address them.

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.

At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.

One of my favorite directors is Clint Eastwood, and I hear about the way he works, and I think I'm of a similar style. Very few takes - you get what you take, and you move on. It's very much a job and work.

In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.

I've heard Simon Cowell is awake all through the night... To be honest that is when I get all my work done.

My jiu-jitsu is very simple and basic.

My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are my essentials.

The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

Big games are usually about doing the simple things well - not trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

When you and I go to work, and we use a computer to work and find that our work apps are completely onerous and the apps we use at home are quite easy, we wonder, why can't it be simpler, easier, quicker, and less expensive?

We fundamentally want to make people's lives simpler. So we will look for technology that works toward that end.

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

I'm the opposite of a gearhead. I like simplicity. I use what works, and the only time I change it is when I have to.

People understand the simplicity of violence, and martial arts has always been about the more efficient way to deliver said violence upon an adversary. I've kept that philosophy as the focal point of what I do.