Quotes About Efficiency

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

So little time and so little to do.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable.

He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.

Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

Our prep's not going to be any different. It will be optional batting practice like there was today. I don't want any more work. I don't want extra study.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work.

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

I think people forgot that there are still ways you can get the ball inside rather than just standing there and throwing the ball in. You have to have a system that makes all things work.