Quotes About Efficiency

Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that's a pretty small car!

What is this?' 'A Smart Car' It looked like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car

International alliances reduce the cost of developing cars significantly.

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging

The secret of Washington's ability to accomplish so much was his mastery of time management. Consider his statements on time. "What to me is more valuable, my time, that I most regard," he wrote to James McHenry, September 14, 1799. Similarly, he wrote to James Anderson on December 10, 1799, "… time, which is of more importance than is generally imagined.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.

If there is any one "secret" of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.

Is this still worth doing?" And if it isn't, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.

A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual; they fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

Two hundred people, of course, can do a great deal more work than one man. But it does not follow that they produce and contribute more.