Quotes About Efficiency

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly.

I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.

I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.

At some point, practicality requires that you reach out to people in the business. You have to take care of business if you value your work.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

Realize that you earn income by providing value - not time - so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.

I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other.

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.

Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.

...Omit nothing which can advance his work, and not blame others for the delay.

Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?

If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work.