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Quotes About Efficiency

The question you need to keep asking yourself is: How can I give my customer the results he wants systematically rather than personally? Put another way: How can I create a business whose results are systems-dependent rather than people-dependent? Systems-dependent rather than expert-dependent.
~ Michael E. Gerber
How can I get my business to work, but without me? • How can I get my people to work, but without my constant interference? • How can I systematize my business in such a way that it could be replicated 5,000 times, so the 5,000th unit would run as smoothly as the first? • How can I own my business, and still be free of it? • How can I spend my time doing the work I love to do rather than the work I have to do?
~ Michael E. Gerber
How can I systematize my business in such a way that it could be replicated 5,000 times, so the 5,000th unit would run as smoothly as the first? • How can I own my business, and still be free of it? • How can I spend my time doing the work I love to do rather than the work I have to do?
~ Michael E. Gerber
The Entrepreneurial Perspective asks the question: "How must the business work?" The Technician's Perspective asks: "What work has to be done?
~ Michael E. Gerber
Orchestration is the elimination of discretion, or choice, at the operating level of your business.
~ Michael E. Gerber
The system runs the business. The people run the system.
~ Michael E. Gerber
The Model Will Be Operated by People with the Lowest Possible Level of Skill
~ Michael E. Gerber
The question you need to keep asking yourself is: How can I give my customer the results he wants systematically rather than personally? Put
~ Michael E. Gerber
4. All Work in the Model Will Be Documented in Operations Manuals
~ Michael E. Gerber
it's not the commodity or the work itself that is important. What's important is the business: how it looks, how it acts, how it does what it is intended to do.
~ Michael E. Gerber
How can I get my business to work, but without me? • How can I get my people to work, but without my constant interference? • How can I systematize my business in such a way that it could be replicated 5,000 times, so the 5,000th unit would run as smoothly as the first? • How can I own my business, and still be free of it? • How can I spend my time doing the work I love to do rather than the work I have to do? If
~ Michael E. Gerber
The value of your Equity is directly proportional to how well your business works. And how well your business works is directly proportional to the effectiveness of the systems you have put into place, upon which the operation of your business depends.
~ Michael E. Gerber
How can I create a business whose results are systems-dependent rather than people-dependent? Systems-dependent rather than expert-dependent. How can I create an expert system rather than hire one?
~ Michael E. Gerber
Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go, but the systems remain constant.
~ Michael E. Gerber
Ask those responsible for each activity to identify how other activities within the company improve or detract from their performance. Second, are there ways to strengthen how activities and groups of activities reinforce one another? Finally, could changes in one activity eliminate the need to perform others?
~ Michael E. Porter
Según decían, tenían que aprovechar incluso los ratos libres, con lo que tenían que conseguir como fuera y a toda prisa diversión y relajación.
~ Michael Ende
İnsan?n iÅŸini severek ve isteyerek yapmas?n?n bir önemi yoktu. Aksine, önemli olan ÅŸey, ne kadar k?sa sürede ne kadar çok iÅŸin yap?ld???yd?.
~ Michael Ende
Orada her ?ey hesapl?, her ?ey planl?yd?. Her santim ve her an. Zaman tasarruf edeyim derken asl?nda ba?ka ?eylerden tasarruf etti?inin kimse fark?nda de?ildi.
~ Michael Ende
İnsan zamandan tasarruf ettikçe, zaman azal?yordu.
~ Michael Ende
The auditing of time sheet hours is a time wasting process that can be eliminated if contracts focus on paying agencies for deliverables rather than for man-hours.
~ Michael Farmer
You've got ten fingers,' said Morris. 'Why not stick them in ten pies?
~ Michael Frayn
If you don't take the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
~ Michael J. Fox
The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours
~ Michael Lewis
Russians had a reputation for being the best programmers on Wall Street, and Serge thought he knew why: They had been forced to learn to program computers without the luxury of endless computer time. Many years later, when he had plenty of computer time, Serge still wrote out new programs on paper before typing them into the machine. "In Russia, time on the computer was measured in minutes," he said. "When you write a program, you are given a tiny time slot to make it work.
~ Michael Lewis