Quotes About Efficiency

We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better.

While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.

If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

What gets measured gets done.

Take all the swift advantage of the hours.

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now?

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much as a Lazy Achiever.

When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.

We don't live forever. We have a limited energy. You have to determine those things that you direct your energy towards, otherwise you get yourself in too many places and nothing succeeds.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.

To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.