Quotes About Efficiency

What we like to say is that the vision for Uber is the cross between lifestyle and logistics.

It turns out that most of us aren't aware of how we actually spend our time or what we really do all day until we break it down hour by hour and say it out loud.

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.

Do not spend much of your energy trying to move a large rock, instead move as many smaller stones as you can

But in the science of physics, power means something different. Power describes how fast you use energy. For example, it takes the same amount of energy to walk across a football field as it does to run across a football field. But running is faster. Therefore, running has more power. This is the kind of power that makes things happen.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

Take, for example, the way in which physicians responded to the high mortality rates of children in orphanages early in the last century. Assuming that microorganisms were to blame, doctors separated children from one another and kept handling by adults to a minimum in order to reduce the risk of infection. Despite these mandates, children continued to die at such alarming rates that both intake forms and death certificates were completed at admission for the sake of efficiency.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Form follows function.

So, execution is really the critical part of a successful strategy. Getting it done, getting it done right, getting it done better than the next person is far more important than dreaming up new visions of the future.

E xecution—getting the task done, making it happen—is the most unappreciated skill of an effective business leader.

When I arrived at IBM, new mainframes were announced every four to five years. Today they are launched, on average, every eighteen months (with excellent quality, I might add). I can understand the joke that was going around IBM in the early 1990s: "Products aren't launched at IBM. They escape.

Have a regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

You can get a goat to climb tree, but you'd be better off hiring a squirrel.

My sons have all grown now, so I'm down from five washers to one, but one takes just as long.

Ciascuno si specializzerà nel proprio lavoro, producendo per sé e per gli altri, giacché, per raggiungere la massima efficienza, è necessario che ciascuno faccia il proprio mestiere e non il mestiere degli altri.

The design of good interfaces takes time and ingenuity.

The best person to get something done is a busy person

The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.

Excel at quality of work, speed of delivery or convenience