Quotes About Efficiency

Who in the same given time can produce more than many others, has vigour; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

They say you get out of life what you put in, but that is only true if you can understand what it is that you are getting.

Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

The brain consumes 20 percent of the body's energy, far more than any other organ, while making up only 2 percent of an adult's body weight.

Tal y como lo planteó Downs, el hombre racional «persigue sus objetivos de un modo tal que, en la medida de sus posibilidades, utilizará la mínima cantidad de recursos escasos por unidad de resultados obtenidos». Esto también exigía centrarse en un aspecto concreto de un individuo y no en «toda su personalidad».

The British proponents of free trade might have thought this a far more efficient way of managing international affairs than one based on nationalism and war, with peace dependent on a tenuous balance of power.

Cuando en 1914 Ford empezó a tener dificultades para mantener una fuerza de trabajo estable debido a la monotonía y el aburrimiento de la línea de montaje, anunció que pagaría a sus trabajadores cinco dólares diarios. Siempre dijo que ese había sido uno de los «recortes de costes de producción más inteligentes que hemos hecho».

Como demostraba la experiencia del Modelo T de Ford, incluso el más diestro fabricante de un producto con costes reducidos al mínimo podía verse superado y atrapado por un producto mejor.

Efficiency is a ratio, not an absolute.

Because it often proves difficult to downsize a work force even if people don't have anything to do.

Peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing is among the most efficient of the efficient technologies the Internet enables. Using distributed intelligence, p2p systems facilitate the easy spread of content in a way unimagined a generation ago. This

80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.

A house is a machine for living in.

A house is a machine for living in. Baths, sun, hot-water, cold-water, warmth at will, conservation of food, hygiene, beauty in the sense of good proportion. An armchair is a machine for sitting in and so on. Our

When you adopt a frugal lifestyle, start by re-examining your daily routines to make sure that you don't spend any more money than is necessary to get the job done—whatever that job may be.

Focus means saying "no." Jobs focuses Apple's limited resources on a small number of projects it can execute well.

We are not interested in design statements. We do everything we can to simplify design.

Focus on what you are good at; delegate all else. Jobs doesn't direct animated movies or woo Wall Street. He concentrates on what he's good at.

Concentre-se naquilo em que você é bom; delegue todo o resto. Jobs não dirige filmes de animação nem namora Wall Street. Ele se concentra naquilo em que é bom.

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.