Quotes About Efficiency

According to the USDA, it takes 11 calories of fossil fuel to produce 1 calorie of protein in the form of meat, poultry, or fish; soy is forty-five times more efficient.

Hollywood did not just make horror movie monsters, it was its own horror movie monster, smashing me under its foot. I had failed and the Auteur would make The Hamlet as he intended, with my countrymen serving merely as raw material for an epic about white men saving good yellow people from bad yellow people. I pitied the French for their naïveté in believing they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much more efficient, imagining the countries it wanted to exploit.

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

Be like a train, it gets to its destination on time by staying on the track.

Do not leave to the morning the business of the evening.

Do only one thing at a time. It is lazy people who want to do everything at the same time.

He who explains things to an intelligent person need not tire himself out talking.

The men who are really busiest have the most leisure for everything.

For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes

80% of results come from 20% of effort/time

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

the ideal human government is not democracy, but divine dictatorship – that is, to have Jesus Christ as the king of all. Dictatorship is in principle the most efficient form of government, but its success depends on the worth, ability, and character of the dictator. Only Jesus Christ deserves this level of exaltation, and only he can wield such power justly and wisely.

One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.

If he gave an assignment, he didn't really care how it was done or who did it or what problems they had. It just had to get done, and that was that.

inspiration to action, know-how, and activity knowledge. They are the keys to the system.

The word know-how does not mean knowing how to do something-that's activity knowledge. Know-how is doing that something the right way, with skill and effectiveness, and with minimum expenditure of time and effort.

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

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!

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

It is not enough to just do your best or work hard; You must know what to work on.

Inspection to improve quality is too late, ineffective, costly. Quality comes not from inspection, but from the improvement of the production process.

Christine, what is your job? Is it: To make 25 calls per hours? Or To give callers courteous satisfaction, no brushoff. It can not be both.

The aim of supervision should be to help people and machines and gadgets to do a better job.