Quotes About Efficiency

Yo debo gobernar el reloj, no ser gobernada por él". —Golda Meir

Spend 80 percent of your time on the most promising 20 percent of the potential leaders around you.

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success. It's Not How Hard You Work; It's How Smart You Work

If you want to be productive, you should try to learn to get joy from what gives the greatest return and discipline yourself to do those things.

Time is valuable. Psychiatrist and author M. Scott Peck said, "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

La razón por la cual las grandes metas no se consiguen es porque nos pasamos el tiempo haciendo primero las cosas secundarias»

Prioritize the things that yield high return. What's the key to being productive? Prioritizing. To be an effective leader, you must learn to not only get a lot done, but to get a lot of the right things done. That means understanding how to prioritize time, tasks, resources, and even people. Effective prioritizing begins with eliminating the things you shouldn't be doing.

You can't do everything, so focus on your strengths.

There are two things that are most difficult to get people to do: to think, and to do things in order of importance." He

The Pareto Principle 20 percent of your priorities will give you 80 percent of your production IF you spend your time, energy, money, and personnel on the top 20 percent of your priorities.

Perhaps we have become too analytical to take decisive action. We may be spending too much time studying our problems and not enough time solving them.

PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST TODAY AND NEGLECT THINGS THAT DON'T REALLY MATTER.

How do I identify the top 20 percent influencers/producers in my organization?" I suggest that you make a list of everyone in your company or department. Then ask yourself this question about each individual: "If this person takes a negative action against me or withdraws his or her support from me, what will the impact likely be?" If

Sorry this is such a long letter, but I didn't have time to write a shorter one.

Don't create complicated solutions to fix complicated problems. Simplicity is the only thing that can make our lives less complicated.

My car runs on gas, not friendship. So pay the fu.. up.

If the mind is allowed to be sadly engaged in the past or to be unduly worried about the future, this mental weight would stop us from meaningfully using our present. And, this would reduce our efficiency and productivity.

Walmart: Let's buy 30 cash registers...and only keep two open!

Getting so bored, that you actually do your homework early...

H.o.m.e.w.o.r.k = Half of my energy wasted on random knowledge

I would say inhuman, but your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago.

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best