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Quotes About Efficiency

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.
~ Robert W. Bly
The goal isn't to do work and hand it in just before it's due. The goal is to do the work as beautifully as you can, faster than anyone else, so you can do more work.
~ Seth
One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people.
~ Steve Carell
Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.
~ Donna Karan
Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.
~ Alan Chadwick
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
~ B. C. Forbes
My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.
~ Joshua Mohr
I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
The faster you work, the better off you're going to be.
~ Mark Buehrle
Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.
~ Mason Cooley
I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.
~ Mike Duke
In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.
~ Milton Friedman
Team Work is the essence of good governance. It is necessary to form a team within the party and also within the administrative system.
~ Narendra Modi
If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out of work.
~ Paul Orfalea
Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.
~ Paul Virilio
The key to getting work done on time is to stop wearing a watch.
~ Ricardo Semler
I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
~ Robert Benchley
Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).
~ Seth Godin
I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.
~ Shirley Temple
College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.
~ Susan Cain
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
~ Tim Ferriss
To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
~ William Osler
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
~ Beck
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
~ Benjamin Franklin