Quotes About Efficiency

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want

If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.

I don't care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody, it's not red or blue.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

I'm sorry for writing you a four-page letter. I did not have time to write you a one-page letter.

Beginning with roughly a hundred acres (before he had finished he had added another three hundred), Mr. Lawrence decided to build a town. When his contractor asked him where to put the streets, Lawrence looked at the cow paths meandering up and down the hills and said, "Why not make the streets follow the cow paths?" And so, following the rules of bovine common sense, there the streets are for Mr. Mumford to admire.

What cannot be made simple cannot be made clear and what is not clear will not get done.

Ohno is credited with the saying that "having no problems is the biggest problem of all." The result is the most productive automotive manufacturing system in the world today, which is sustaining its lead despite every attempt by its rivals to copy it. It has its origins in the need to overcome a constraint.

In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor's classic The Principles of Scientific Management enshrined the machine model for several generations. This approach to management rests on three premises: 1 In principle it is possible to know all you need to know to be able to plan what to do. 2 Planners and doers should be separated. 3 "There is but one right way." A manager was a programmer of robot workers. The essence of management was to create perfect plans and tell people precisely

Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

small batches of work, small teams, short cycles, and quick feedback—in effect, "small everything.

Agile management is about working smarter rather than harder. It's not about doing more work in less time: It's about generating more value from less work.

In the Agile organization, "customer focus" means something very different. In firms that have embraced Agile, everyone is passionately obsessed with delivering more value to customers. Everyone in the organization has a clear line of sight to the ultimate customer and can see how their work is adding value to that customer—or not. If their work isn't adding value to any customer or user, then an immediate question arises as to why the work is being done at all.

The client gets to see the next iteration of the system every three weeks, instead of waiting five years for one "big bang" delivery.

If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.

Perhaps, as with cars, there was a law of diminishing evolutionary return, and it was no longer economical to build models with ever larger engines.