Quotes About Efficiency

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.

A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster. And get things fixed, that much quicker.

Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it." Fromm was right;

people didn't use extra time earned to relax or connect with friends or family. Instead, they tried to cram more in.

They then spent the next two hours working, just two regular unicorns, getting through their to-do list.

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

planning became a great deal simpler and easier when one didn't have the additional bother of working out how to survive said plan.

It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then more onto the next.

Compartmentalize and conquer.

a captain should know the details of every position in his ship's company by working them with his own hands, stem to stern. It's the only way to be sure you know what each man needs from his captain in order to be able to perform his duty.

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You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then move on to the next.

If you had, you'd realize what an incredible force you have working on your side." "The A-Team?" "Bureaucracy," Murphy said. "I would rather have the A-Team.

When you marry operating excellence with innovation, you multiply the value of your creativity.

Peter Drucker once observed that the drive for mergers and acquisitions comes less from sound reasoning and more from the fact that doing deals is a much more exciting way to spend your day than doing actual work.35

Stop doing lists are more important thanto do lists.

And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense -- I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

So that she would not have to stop for food she kept a hard-boiled egg on the passenger seat of the Corvette.

She dressed every morning with a greater sense of purpose than she had felt in some time, a cotton skirt, a jersey, sandals she could kick off when she wanted the touch of the accelerator, and she dressed very fast, running a brush through her hair once or twice and tying it back with a ribbon...