Quotes About Efficiency

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.

Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.

Let's do away with the Departments of Education, Energy Commerce, Housing and Urban Development.

LaGuardia is jammed into just 680 urban acres; taxiways are tight; runways intersect; you can't launch a departure until the arrival on the other runway crosses the threshold or else the airplanes will ... collide.

I have a track record of getting things done as secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear the best way is to do them in their proper time.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.