Quotes About Efficiency

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

When we think about the trends that millennials are taking toward simplicity, I think it's indicative of a cultural shift toward less of the 'more is more' for materialism sake and more of an emphasis on efficiency, value, and sustainability.

My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

An employee, even a very junior person, if they can articulately summarize a meeting, if they can put together a presentation and even emails that are really salient and to the point, they are so valued.

The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.

The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

it takes around 10,000 pounds of corn to grow a 1,000-pound cow. If instead you want to grow 1,000 pounds of carnivore, you have to feed it 10,000 pounds of herbivore grown on 100,000 pounds of corn.

Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way

Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort. When good enough gets the job done, go for it.

Time-management hacks, life hacks, sleep hacks, work hacks. These all reflect an obsession with trying to squeeze more time out of the day, but rearranging your daily patterns to find more time for work isn't the problem. Too much shit to do is the problem.

Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it's a mark of stupidity.

Behind Closed Doors 1, a fantastic book about management from Esther Derby and Johanna Rothman.

Efficiency is a capitalist term that assumes one has the goal of achieving a certain level of productivity.

2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate.

The best plans are always the simplest.

The honorific was long winded, but correct. Technically speaking, all practitioners should be introduced this way, but it just soaked up useful time that might be otherwise spent drinking tea, or chatting.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit

man who goes to a hardware store to buy a power drill doesn't really need a drill—he needs holes. He

If you're failing to strategize, you're probably using your time in the wrong ways.

better idea would be to keep the same number of staff you have now and invest in high upside-leverage "performance enhancement" training, which would result in those same employees becoming as much as 50 to 100 percent more effective.

Answers of less than 30 seconds are generally insufficient, but answers over three minutes are too long.

If they send you an e-mail, respond within twenty-four hours, though two hours is far better, and two minutes is best.

He broke the bank with that claim, and he lived up to it. Although he could have mentioned a myriad of other benefits, it was the lack of waiting that hit the bulls-eye for him.