Quotes About Efficiency

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.

We all have 1,440 minutes each day to accomplish everything on our schedule. We are accountable for prioritizing the decisions we make with our time.

Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.

The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.

We are beginning to see the benefits of globalconsolidation.

Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time.

When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.

If you're not working on the best idea right now, you're wasting your time & money

Winners dont do different things They do things differently

You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has more fun, and when everybody has more fun, the end result is funnier.

Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.