Quotes About Efficiency

Meetings should be great - they're opportunities for a group of people sitting together around a table to directly communicate. That should be a good thing. And it is, but only if treated as a rare delicacy.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don't think it's necessarily treating people like things.

I do hot oil treatments at home while I'm cleaning my house or whatever.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

I've learned to climb a tree pretty fast.

Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

We all think Al Gore invented email so we could save time and save paper, to save trees. And that includes phone trees.

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.

Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.

'The Librarians' is a show that really needs to have ten days, but we shoot it in seven, so the workload is really tremendous, and we don't really quite have the budget to really give it the production value that it deserves, so we try to be as resourceful as we can.

My time is really important to me, and where I put it has to be of tremendous value.

Corporate efficiency has led to a nasty trend of filtering resumes for keywords. This might save time, but it ensures that many of the best candidates will never make it to the interview.

I started the trend of doing only one film at a time.

The bicycle might just be the greatest of all inventions. It empowers the human machine, and with no input beyond perhaps a trendy isotonic health drink in a brightly coloured bottle at an inflated price.

I'll let others worry about what is trendy. When I was a player I wasn't a fashion item, I was someone who got the job done. I hope I'm like that as a manager.

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in.

If you don't have a plan, you will never find enough time to finish a task.

Find out how much time you have then get busy using it.

Cleaning with children in the house really is like brushing your teeth while eating Oreos.

If you are "playing" too much or "working" too much, you will have a reaction on the other side, which indicates your pace is off, too slow or too fast.

Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

When you buy bananas all you want is the fruit not the skin, but you have to pay for the skin also. It is a waste. And you the customer should not have to pay for the waste.