Quotes About Efficiency

Kasandra took charge of things. She was the most organized person Johnny knew. In fact she was so organized that she had too much organization for one person, and it overflowed in every direction.

We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they're elected. Don't you?' 'Why?' 'It saves time.

When people focus on themselves rather than on their impact, lots of activity and effort get wasted on the wrong things.

This isn't about perfection. Far from it. It's simply about getting better — better in systematic and concrete ways that improve the company's bottom line.

we should spend much more time and effort helping things go right than dealing with things that are going wrong.

The pyramid suggests that we should spend much more time and effort helping things go right than dealing with things that are going wrong.

this was going to be easy peasy.

One of his self–imposed tasks was to go about the house after Lester, or the servants, turning out the gas–jets or electric–light bulbs which might accidentally have been left burning. That was a sinful extravagance.

When Jordan was averaging over 30 and shooting over 50 percent, he was doing it with less shooting on the floor for himself. He had less spacing to work with. He was going against defenses that were allowed a lot more liberties as far as physical contact, how hard they fouled, and all those things.

The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.

I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.

If you're not good at juggling, then you're not juggling. I always tell people that. If you're dropping a lot of balls, then maybe you shouldn't juggle. And that's fine... there's different ways of working.

You ain't gotta jump too high to shoot the ball.

I don't need to be the fastest or be able to jump highest to be effective or do the right things to help the team.

I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.

Yeah, strikeouts just kind of happen. It's not something I'm trying to do, I'm just trying to get outs as fast as possible.

If you're going to start a fire, why cook just one chicken?

I like to drive hard, and obviously when you get to this level, especially running for points - you've got to make sure when you have a car that can run 10th, that you run 10th with it. You can't sit here and try to make it go from 10th to a win and end up 30th. That's just something I had to figure out.

Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That's the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us?

I am the sort of a bowler who keeps things simple.