Quotes About Efficiency

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

If you want something done right, get someone else to do it.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

The best direction is the least possible direction.

The number of agency people required to shoot a commercial on location is in direct proportion to the mean temperature of the location.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.

Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

After an eight-hour day, workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

If Moses had been a committee, the Israelites would still be in Egypt.

A committee of one gets things done.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

One arrow does not bring down two birds.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.