Quotes About Efficiency

I've recorded 25 to 30 songs in a single night, singing five or six takes of each song. I'm very disciplined.

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

When a hospital isn't under as much pressure, you start to see things slowing down, and it might take five, six, seven days to get the person discharged, and that's the length of stay, so it's all these different factors come into play all the time.

The most productive employees, from my experience, are those who go home at 5:30 P.M. but are hyperfocused at work. People can only think really hard for six to eight hours a day.

I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

I think that technology is the best thing that ever happened to mankind. It's an absurd notion that somehow, 'My God, what are we going to do when driverless cars come along?' It's going to save lives on the road. And maybe, one day, we'll all be working four days a week and not five or six days a week.

It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.

Our policies for increasing agricultural production and productivity have been scale neutral; that is, our policies are equally effective irrespective of the size of the holdings.

I used to have to pick up the phone and talk to people who placed orders for the car. When you reach a certain size, you need to have processes in place.

I don't think it's good in any business for anyone to have a monopoly. On the other hand, you need to have size to get costs down.

I don't really care if you're a Republican or Democrat or you want to fight about the size of government. How about a government that just works? Put your tax dollar in and get a return out the other end.

Designers simply can't afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample.

Usually in a Smosh sketch, we get 60 shots, 12 hours to shoot - we're just going 'bam, bam, bam.'

International carriers need to be given greater role in our skies on all routes like several other large countries to make our aviation industry more efficient and competitive and prevent arbitrary pricing by monopolies.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.

I mean, there's enough people who have a job for years and are not good at it, so you should be skilled at what you do.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.