Quotes About Efficiency

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Touch paper only once.

For the present time, just do your job well

You work very slowly. In fact, if you went any slower you'd be in reverse.

The best boss is the one who bosses the least.

Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.

To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.

Just because you work, doesn't mean you're working on the right thing.

It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.

You have time to do what needs to be done.

....I'd rather travel in Cargo-nanoships than a Bullet-train to reach my target.

Whenever I'm running an hour late for for work, it always makes me feel better when I can leave an hour early at the end of the day to make up for it.

Life is too short to waste on unproductive endeavors

I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.

Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

As a company grows, things get stuck at the top. It can be a bottleneck.

You don't want to get stuck playing 40 minutes a game with your small lineup.

I remember doing a little student film where we had a guy that couldn't pull focus. We ended up spending three times the amount of time shooting this thing as opposed to if the guy could've just pulled focus.

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.

Traditionally, when you talk to people who have Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, they'll talk about how they're in five or six studies, and they've been sequenced by each study. That's just fat in the system. Just have a single data set that then you can share. You can make the entire system more efficient.

I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.