Quotes About Efficiency

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.

An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.

Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on.

The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.

The law of Forced Efficiency says that There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

Rule: It is the quality of time at work that counts and the quantity of time at home that matters.

You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.

Say no to anything that is not a high-value use of your time and your life.

If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.

The Law of Forced Efficiency says, "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important things.

When everything is laid out neatly and in sequence, you will feel much more like getting on with the job.

Before you begin work, always ask yourself, Is this task in the top 20 percent of my activities or in the bottom 80 percent?

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

The law of increasing returns says that the more you focus on doing the few things that represent the most valuable use of your time, the better you become at those activities and the less time it takes you to accomplish each one.

The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This

utilizan su tiempo mucho mejor que la persona promedio.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but who gets very little done.

The potential consequences of any task or activity are the key determinants of how important a task really is to you and to your company.