Quotes About Efficiency

Most people simply don't view going to meetings as doing work.

I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.

A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

A beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes. I ride my bike to work, do yoga to relax, and go out dancing to get my booty-shaking on!

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.

Technology should do the hard work, so you can get on and live your life. We're only at one percent of what's possible, and we're moving slow relative to the opportunity we have.

Work faster, smarter and harder

Where you need to make fast decisions, people have to work in an open space where I can just walk to somebody's cube, so we don't need to schedule meetings for absolutely everything.

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.

The better a work environment is, the better it is for the employer - not just the employee.

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work