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Quotes About Efficiency

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
~ Karl Kraus
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
~ Clifton Fadiman
Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.
~ Confucius
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
~ Felix Frankfurter
A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.
~ Napoleon Hill
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
~ Brooks Atkinson
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-
~ Mark Twain
No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.
~ Napoleon Hill
Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.
~ Henry Ford
As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.
~ John Joseph Bernet
A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost
~ Laozi
I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.
~ Dwight L. Moody
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
~ Elbert Hubbard
A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society
~ Emile M. Cioran
The finest mode of transport known to man.
~ Adam Hart-Davis
An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
~ Arthur Helps
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
~ B. F. Skinner
It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.
~ C. J. Dennis
When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.
~ Emilio Pucci
No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
~ Franz Kafka
A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.
~ George Stillman Hillard
Im a machine man, and I head a machine.
~ Harry Bridges
Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.
~ Henry Ford