Quotes About Efficiency

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

To make three guineas do the work of five.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work.

I work best inundated with things when it's like raining information.

I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.

I like to work as little as possible to make the most money possible.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.

There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.

I'm extremely organized. The more things I have to work on and can bounce back and forth between, the more energized I am.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.

Haste makes work which caution prevents.

Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Plan your work - work your plan

One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.

Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.