Quotes About Efficiency

Too much balast slows you down.

If it has to be done, it must be best done.

You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop.

People can easily forget how fast you did your work, but can hardly forget how well you did it.

Working smart is harder than working hard. It's just less visible, and we care too much about what others see.

A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.

One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Love of bustle is not industry.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work-their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.

I'll take the stairs instead of the elevator, or when I'm on a phone call, I'll do squats or pace the room when I'm talking. We're modern women! We have to figure out how to make it work, right?

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

It's sometimes tiring to get off a long-haul flight and go straight to the studio for a shoot, but if you really plan everything well, you can get so much out of combining travel with work.

If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.

I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.

To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.

Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.

Take back control of your time by eliminating interruptions.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.