Quotes About Efficiency

The reason, according to Fortune, was that Six Sigma got in the way of innovation. Too much energy was spent cutting defects to 3.4 per million, and not enough energy was expended developing new product ideas.

Employees at three out of every five companies rated their organization weak at execution

Less can be more. Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction. Athletes require rest and recovery time.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough.

In those early years, I worked endlessly to research every detail that might affect the deal I wanted to pursue. I do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but I can move quickly when opportunities open because I've done the background work first—which no one else sees. I prepare thoroughly. Then, when the green flag is dropped, I can stay ahead of competitors.

But this inertia often causes you to use a tool because you know it, rather than because it's the right tool.

Routine is necessary for efficiency; breaking routine is necessary for adaptation.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

Work smarter, not harder," was Scrooge's motto, and his stories were full of inventive schemes that, more often than not, made him even richer and more successful. In Scrooge's world, hard work paid off, yes — but so did cleverness and a desire to do something in a way no one had ever thought of before.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, ìwhat is the most valuable use of my time right now?

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

High-functioning teams are gold and the true key to success.

A good general rule around communication is to include as few people as necessary in synchronous communication (like meetings), and to go for a broader audience in asynchronous communication (like email).

An engineer's skills are like the blade of a knife: you may spend tens of thousands of dollars to find engineers with the sharpest skills for your team, but if you "use" that knife for years without sharpening it, you will wind up with a dull knife that is inefficient, and in some cases useless.

C is not a big language, and it is not well served by a big book.

It takes less time for them to conquer the world than it takes for me to brush my teeth. That's pretty disappointing." Jesse from ALIEN INVASION & OTHER INCONVENIENCES.

It takes less time for them to conquer the world than it takes for me to brush my teeth. That's pretty disappointing.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Washington, who monitored his supplies on a daily basis, sometimes checking on them every few hours, complained bitterly about the inefficient operations