Quotes About Efficiency

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

He that has much to do will do something wrong.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

Performance releases pressure.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

He who wants to do everything will never do anything.

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they ... divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.

The busiest man is the happiest man.

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.

Haste makes waste.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.

He is idle that might be better employed.

Did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

As things mature - whether they be real estate, rock n' roll, politics, festivals, radio - there's an efficiency that develops, and with it, very often, comes some soul-crushing truths.