Quotes About Efficiency

I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!

Track accountability is the best way to describe it. You're looking to see which dog accounts for the most tracks in the smoothest manner.

But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

I do the best with what exists.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

Know when to email vs. when to meet. Logistics are best handled over a non-immediate communication channel like email or Asana tasks. Detailed status meetings will suck the life out of your day.

What gets measured gets managed.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.

A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

I see myself as the mind of the business which takes care of every last detail; if you do not do this you cannot be fast enough.

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

Systems run the business and people run the systems.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.