Quotes About Efficiency

Less energy on emotions, more energy on solutions" is a useful perspective most employers would like all of their employees to employ.

Management is how well it runs when you are there: Leadership is how well it runs when you are not.

Skill Pill - Any practice or substance that shortens the time required to master a skill or subject.

The most efficient way to write a walk-on character is to use stereotypes, because the reader already has an impression. This, of course, depends on the length of your story and the importance of the character.

I learned that programming was mostly typing. To this day, I don't understand why software development takes so long.

What was the point of having a dishwasher if you had to wash the stupid dishes first? When she grew up, she'd have a robot to do all the housework for her.

the definition of a machine is simple. It is anything that reduces human effort. Anything.

There are many who measure what they are doing by what they can report. They go out with garrulity in the morning, and come back with statistics at night.

Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it, no small deduction from the little life of man. Cicero has termed them intercisiva tempora, and the ancients were not ignorant of their value; nay, it was not unusual with them either to compose or to dictate, while under the operation of rubbing after the bath.

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.

Why can we land people on the Moon, machines on Mars and transfer trillions internationally, but can't figure out how to run efficient, accurate and fair elections?

Your lean process should be a lean process.

And nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Continuous improvement is not about the things you do well — that's work. Continuous improvement is about removing the things that get in the way of your work. The headaches, the things that slow you down, that's what continuous improvement is all about.

...even the best worker cannot beat a bad system...

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. No one is large enough to be split up into many parts; and the sooner a man can stamp this truth upon his mind, the better his chances for being a profitable member of society.

All in favor of conserving gasoline, please raise your right foot.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the years as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

The best carpenters make the fewest chips.