Quotes About Efficiency

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.

To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency

I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

There are a lot of lessons that you learn, and you have to learn them quickly if you want to be competitive at this top level.

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.

Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

I can't chitchat and make breakfast at the same time. You could help, you know, instead of standing there like the Queen of England. Although you're a lot better-looking.

Stuck in traffic is not an excuse. It's a sign of bad planning

Many a business depends for its success on some girl who is smart enough to see to it that her boss gets his work done, who sometimes even does his work for him, who keeps everybody satisfied and happy, and who has enough foresight to control new situations as they occur. How do you go about finding such a jewel? … RICHARD and RUBIN, How to Select and Direct the Office Staff