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Quotes About Efficiency

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.
~ Jacob Braude
A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
~ John Lyly
I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.
~ Jose Mourinho
If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
~ William Feather
Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.
~ William Shatner
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.
~ William Stanley Jevons
I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.
~ Samuel Pepys
Men who have much to say use the fewest words.
~ Josh Billings
Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.
~ Kin Hubbard
Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.
~ Murray Leinster
in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
~ H. C. Bailey
Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.
~ Albert J. Nock
Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it.
~ Alfred P. Sloan
My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.
~ Christoph Waltz
To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.
~ Confucius
If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
~ Fay Weldon
We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine