Quotes About Efficiency

If all a man's faculties can be concentrated on one point, it will be like a spike; a blunt object cannot penetrate an obstacle, it has to be sharpened, and then it can easily thrust its way through anything.

If you are going to work with Jamie, do what you say you are going to do. The people he attracts and, more importantly, that he is attracted to are people who clearly get things done

having a strong balance sheet, making sure the right leaders are in place, and keeping costs in line as some of Dimon's other management qualities.

When information doesn't flow, bureaucracy builds and departments become siloed. Stagnation is the inevitable result.

the first thing is that a leader needs to be able to assemble and have a disciplined team. That discipline supports the whole team. It's the work ethic; it's the constant facts and analysis, constantly delving into it.

Three of his greatest characteristics are he's really smart, he has tremendous energy, and he'll get into the details with anybody on anything. Most people who get to the level that he is at are prone to be superficial when it comes to running the business; they don't have enough time or energy to get into the details," observed Harvard Business School professor Paul Marshall.

From his office on the 48th floor, Dimon makes the rounds every day to committee members who are in New York, stopping by for conversations lasting three or four minutes. Those outside New York are apt to get a short phone call. Although Dimon uses electronic communication, his preferred mode is personal and when possible face-to-face. He doesn't waste time, but sees these micro-meetings as the most efficient way to following up on issues across the bank's six business units.

Your brain is the "greediest" organ in the body; the resting brain uses oxygen and glucose at 10 times the rate of the rest of the body. Thus, even though the brain makes up less than 2.5 percent of total body weight, it is responsible for 20 percent of the body's energy consumption.

freeing up time for more valuable endeavors, such as advanced training. He

One task at a time.

She had got herself dressed before I had asked her to!

Employees stay twice as long, sick days have dropped, and morale is higher.

Not at all. But he did go on in that address to say that the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today.

What applies to professionals applies doubly to workers in offices, shops and factories and our families and friends.

the order was accepted, produced and delivered on time.

Just for today I will have a program. I will write down what I expect to do every hour. I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it. It will eliminate two pests, hurrying and indecision.

The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.

Your world moves so fast that if you stop even for an instant to consider the implications of your actions, someone more efficient will whip past you in a blur.

The promises of science have not been kept. Promises of efficiency and simplicity have bred nothing but pollution and chaos.

To efficiently create chaos, Langdon realized, requires some order.

Nuclear had proliferated before it was safe, and there were accidents. Solar had proliferated before it was efficient, and people lost money. Both technologies got bad reputations and withered on the vine.

Antimatter is the most powerful energy source known to man. It releases energy with 100 percent efficiency (nuclear fission is 1.5 percent efficient). Antimatter creates no pollution or radiation

To efficiently create chaos requires some order.

all the boring rehash of what happened up to this point. That saves me a lot of time and effort.