Quotes About Efficiency

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can do.

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name is simplicity ... reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils, and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again, tomorrow.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?