Quotes About Efficiency

Money and time spent for training will be ineffective unless inhibitors to good work are removed.

A new president came, talked with the head of sales, design, manufacturing, consumer research, and so forth. Everybody was doing a superb job, and had been doing so for years. Nobody had any problems. Yet somehow or other the company was going down the tube. Why? The answer was simple. Each staff area was sub-optimizing its own work, but not working as a team for the company.

The fact is, they tell me, that they are forced to cut corners to meet production. They never have time to finish anything. Push for production robs them of the chance to go into the production area to learn the problems created by the designs that they construct.

Blame the process, not the people.

The job of management is to replace work standards by knowledgeable and intelligent leadership.

I could do a much better job (fewer mistakes) if I knew what the program is to be used for. The specifications don't tell me what I need to know (programmer).

Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

Now then, we've had a capital lunch, and we're quite ready. Have all the painful preparations been made?

If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance.

The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.

That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.

Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog.

The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?

Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.

It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device.

Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

I can be on a telephone call, and be emailing or texting somebody else, as well. I would imagine everyone appreciates that efficiency of communication. I see it as a huge positive.