Quotes About Efficiency

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.

If you want to kill time, try working it to death.

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again.

Don't agonize. Organize.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.

The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau, filling up the small spaces with small things.

Be Satisfied with a Good Day's Work There are hundreds of tasks we feel we must accomplish in the day, but if we do not take them one at a time ... we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.

A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and, therefore, one seldom does it at all; whereas those who have a great deal of business must buckle to it; and then they always find time enough to do it.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Have a place for everything and have everything in its place.

The best way to bring up some children is short.

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office.

The best is the cheapest.

Kiss principle: Keep it simple, stupid.