Quotes About Efficiency

Nor were managers any better in the supposedly less efficient, small-capitalization universe. Almost three-quarters of small-cap managers underperformed the S&P Small-Cap Index. When

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day

He executed his commission with great promptitude and dispatch, only calling at one public-house for half a minute, and even that might be said to be in his way, for he went in at one door and came out at the other[.]

There is an insidious tendency to neglect important tasks that do not have to be done today—or even this week.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

Inventing is the mixing of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need.

What NASA did for semiconductor companies was teach them to make chips of near-perfect quality, to make them fast, in huge volumes, and to make them cheaper, faster, and better with each year.

Who better than Wal-Mart, after all, to make a kilowatt of electricity go twice as far, or a gallon of fuel move our trucks move three times the distance?" -Wal-Mart ad

Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left.

relentlessly strive to come up with new and better products and produce them more efficiently than the alternatives.

Thomas Sowell eloquently counters this assumption when he writes, "To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more…without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits."3

A man who thinks about business continually for eight hours is injuring his productive potential as much as he is abusing his body, cramping his mind, and ultimately losing his sense of humor and perspective... When work presses down most heavily, a 10-minute walk or a quiet cup of coffee with a crossword puzzle can restore efficiency to an amazing degree...

This meeting could have been an e-mail.

People that are organized are just too lazy to get up and look for it.

Oh, I can't bother to write. If it's too long to telegraph I just let it go.

You may be an engineer if your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place.

It's Monday. Grab some coffee and be awesome!

It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.

The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

Do not put off until tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well.