Quotes About Efficiency

You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to do together.

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

My motto is to keep it simple stupid, work smart not hard.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.

Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.

In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.

Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.

Macau is limited in size and land is expensive, so gaming and leisure development must be more efficient. We follow a very conservative financial strategy.

Our strategy is focused on driving better outcomes for patients and higher productivity for hospitals.

Obviously the fuel mapping pace is a lot of what happens with your strategy, whether you choose to go full rich or not.

I think the only reason people use PCs is because they have to. Mac is the most streamlined computer there is. I started using the Mac in college because I was doing editing, and they were the only computers we could use to do that.

Marvel is a very streamlined studio.

I know that my day wouldn't be nearly as streamlined or productive if it weren't for my team - a team that begins with my Executive Assistant.

I like to be pretty streamlined, to maximize our time on the practice floor. I like to make sure I'm respectful of our players' time.

The reason I moved to Singapore is because everything is so organised and streamlined. There's no 'who you know,' there's no anything 'under the table.'

Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.