Quotes About Efficiency

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.

Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Speak little, do much.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

He who gains time gains everything.