Quotes About Efficiency

Once a week, I might stay late at work. It's sometimes very efficient to work until 7 P.M. - and then come home to kids who are clean and ready for bed. Those days are good.

I never read one book at a time.

One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.

It's better to do one thing at a time and give your full concentration.

I can't do too many things at one time.

I feel like team meetings should happen one time a year, and that should be it.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

I'm never without my personalised Anya Hindmarch diary - I keep my schedule online, too, but my diary is always in my bag. It's crammed Post-its.

I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me.

Google came of age when search was inefficient and cluttered, and made it simple and easy to find what you wanted online.

I shop a lot online... and just the ease of it makes a lot more sense.

Browseability is the key online.

Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.

For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project.

To make our state operate more like a business, we must get a handle on all of our assets and liabilities.

As I looked across the company, there are three things that keep coming up that we need to work on: culture, our operating rigor, and capital allocation.

My fridge is full of super foods to keep my brain operating at maximum efficiency!

You can miss a kick on a good hold and you can still make kicks with bad holds but the more the operation is perfect, the percentages go up and up.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.