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Quotes About Efficiency

Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.
~ David Allen
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.
~ Mos Def
Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window
~ Delia Smith
Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.
~ George Peabody
See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success
~ Bill Gates
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
~ Tom DeMarco
The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.
~ Richard Koch
The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
~ Tim Ferriss
Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.
~ Daniel Kahneman
My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.
~ Alec Issigonis
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.
~ Douglas Mawson
Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.
~ James Surowiecki
Every hour of useful work is precious.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.
~ T. Boone Pickens
Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.
~ John C. Maxwell
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.
~ Mickey Rooney
Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.
~ Carl Honore
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
~ Noam Chomsky
I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.
~ Ayelet Shaked
A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.
~ Steve Jobs