Quotes About Efficiency

Freelancers generally want as friction-free an engagement as possible.

We need more leaders in Washington who will do more with less - and that's how we engineer real change.

It makes the day considerably more enjoyable when you're working with people you think are good, and it makes your job easier, too.

I'm enjoying simplifying things.

You know those days at the office when you used to come in and not really do much? You don't get days like that as an entrepreneur. If you don't do the work you need to, nothing happens that needs to. It's that simple.

Whenever there is somebody at Epic who is capable of doing something better than me, I let them at it.

In the time you make one series of 9-10 episodes, you can make 3 films.

You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.

You can accuse Europeans of being many things - except fast.

I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.

If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

I only read email early in the morning or in the evenings, which isn't perfect, but that's how I like it. I don't want to spend my day doing that.

I think the time has come when the American people understand that federal employees need to work an 8-hour day just like everybody else.

Everybody else has the same 24 hours, but I'm going to make the most of my 24 hours.

For me, nobody's re-inventing football. We just have to do it better than everybody else.

We must take time out to sharpen the ax or we'll exhaust ourselves trying to fell trees with a blunt instrument.

the world must not be run by men who are smiling, charming, incompetent reflections of the nincompoop masses. There are those of us who believe that the affairs of the world can be conducted peacefully and efficiently only by authorities who are not experts alone but who are also men of decisiveness.

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!

In effect, the dominant process says to the auxiliary, "Go out there and tend to the things that can't be avoided, and don't ask me to work on them except when it's absolutely necessary.

A person who walks well does not move his body from his waist up, but rather walks with his legs. Thus, his body is serene, his internal organs are not stressed, and he is not worn out. You should observe the manner in which men carry heavy loads.

The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

The computer is credited with the capacity to create unsuspected amounts of busywork. We are straight on our way towards an energy-obsessed low energy society in a world that worships work but has nothing for people to do.

Beyond a critical speed, no one can save time without forcing another to lose it. The man who claims a seat in a faster vehicle insists that his time is worth more than that of the passenger in a slower one. Beyond a certain velocity, passengers become consumers of other people's time, and accelerating vehicles become the means for effecting a net transfer of life-time.

everywhere the school system has the same structure, and everywhere its hidden curriculum has the same effect. Invariably, it shapes the consumer who values institutional commodities above the nonprofessional ministration of a neighbor. Everywhere the hidden curriculum of schooling initiates the citizen to the myth that bureaucracies guided by scientific knowledge are efficient and benevolent.