Quotes About Efficiency

Suppose that we allot ourselves a generous eight hours a day for sleep (and few need more than that), three hours for meals and conversation, ten hours for work and travel. Still we have thirty-five hours each week to fill. What happens to them? How are they invested?

Conscious of time, Jesus spent His time doing things that mattered. No time was wasted on things not vital.

Our problem is not too little time but making better use of the time we have.

The leader cannot spend time on secondary matters while essential obligations scream for attention. A day needs careful planning.

Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward.

If you could double the number of hours that you were truly alive each day then, in effect, you would be doubling your life expectancy.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

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

The degree to which a leader is able to delegate work is a measure of his success. A one-person office can never grow larger than the load one person can carry. Failing

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Dont do today what you could put off till tomorrow.

We're like ninja party planners.

Consider how we use our time. Not everything is worth the portion of our life we give to obtain it. SOme things are better, and others are best.

We should be careful not to exhaust our available time on things that are merely good and leave time for that which is better or best.

All these corporations owe their international scale of business to Henry Ford's ingenious, widespread use of the production line.

Smith believed that economic growth stems from specialization. The best way to maximize profit and the efficiency of production was for people to specialize in a few select skills, rather than produce whole products themselves.

It's no longer the big fish eating the small fish—it's the fast fish eating the slow fish.

maximum results in minimum time.

The uncertainty and lack of clarity about the potential outcome is the root of the problem. I provide clarity by asking a simple question, "Out of all these tasks you do every day, how many of these tasks are moving you toward the outcome you want?

Countless studies show that these nightmarish hellholes called "open offices" destroy productivity and make people miserable. Yet companies keep inflicting them on us, coyly pretending that the goal is to "foster collaboration," when really it is to squeeze pennies out of overhead by packing more people into fewer square feet of floor space.

Speaking of driving time—join the Automobile University. If you drive twenty-five thousand miles a year at an average speed of 46 mph, you will spend about the same amount of time in your car as an average college student spends in the classroom. The question then is, what are you doing with that time? You can listen to any one of thousands of programs and transform your success.)

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

The best, most elegant microinteractions are often those that allow users a variety of verbs with the fewest possible nouns.