Quotes About Efficiency

One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.

People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.

Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.

I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.

The best servant does his work unseen.

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

The aim should be to work on the method of management.