Quotes About Efficiency

At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. —WARREN G. BENNIS,

1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).

Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.

80% of the results come from 20% of the effort and time.

Options - the ability to choose - is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money - a lot more money - by doing half of what you are doing now.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe." —Abraham Lincoln

What gets measured gets managed. —PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author

Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It

1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk.' Think

Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective—doing less—is the path of the productive.

80% of the consequences flow from 20% of the causes

The minimum effective dose (MED) is defined simply: the smallest dose that will produce a desired outcome.

Busy is a decision." Here's why: Of the many, many excuses people use to rationalize why they can't do something, the excuse "I am too busy" is not only the most inauthentic, it is also the laziest. I don't believe in "too busy." Like I said, busy is a decision. We do the things we want to do, period. If we say we are too busy, it is shorthand for "not important enough.

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Lose an hour in the morning, chase it all day."—a Yiddish saying, author unknown

Time is wasted because there is so much time available.

Out of clutter, find simplicity. —Albert Einstein

Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness.

Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.

As Bruce Lee said, "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

My original intention with The 4-Hour Workweek (4HWW), The 4-Hour Body (4HB), and The 4-Hour Chef (4HC) was to create a trilogy themed after Ben Franklin's famous quote: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." People constantly ask me, "What would you put in The 4-Hour Workweek if you were to write it again? How would you update it?" Ditto for 4HB and 4HC. Tools of Titans contains most of the answers for all three.