Quotes About Efficiency

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

Cars are evolving to match the new paradigm. Soon, things like steering wheels, pedals and rear-view mirrors will seem ancient. More practically, we will all be better able to optimize our time and attention to focus on more important tasks, family, work, and self care.

Humanity needs a new transportation system - a new system of moving people and resources. We need greater efficiency with a good bit of joy built in. And Mayflower-Plymouth is providing that.

Systems Design is a vital part of transforming the transportation industry. At Mayflower-Plymouth, we are rethinking the way people and resources interact with methods of transport, and how to achieve the most efficiency and comfort in those interactions.

Transportation at its best facilitates the efficient flow of resources, the efficient movement of people, and the efficient utilization of time. Thats why we do what we do at Mayflower-Plymouth. It't just about cars and bicycles. Its about efficiency. Its about the improvement of the human experience. And ultimately its about the evolution of our planetary civilization.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Time cannot be saved, it can only be spent, and if not spent wisely and well, it is wasted.

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.

There can be no doubt that so far as the upbuilding of a strong and efficient State was concerned, this policy was entirely successful. To justify it on abstract grounds is impossible, and even its political necessity was, to say the least, doubtful. Whether rightly or wrongly, however, this system of harsh repression was the one adopted; and it is to be feared that its authors were little concerned with the need of justification.

What they (Americans) do, they want to be in a hurry.

A gun gives you the body, not the bird.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution.

If a device would save in time 10% or bring about results worth 10% then its absence is worth 10%.

A department is a little factory unto itself with input and output