Quotes About Efficiency

It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.

The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats...

I have a great office.

I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

Giving great service requires the right people and the right service tools.

Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

UPS stands as an example of a company thats already doing great things.

Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

Happiness inspires productivity.

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.

Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.

One of my concerns is that the health care not be as good as it can possibly be.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.