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Quotes About Efficiency

Nice girl, dear boy. Oh . . . I shrugged. You know. Most attractive. Cheaper than central heating. I'm sure.
~ John Fowles
Putting things off means precious time is lost. Productivity suffers.
~ John G. Miller
A client once said: "Long-range, strategic planning is a great tool, but we need to get some things done before lunch!
~ John G. Miller
Procrastination also increases stress. As things pile up, we begin to feel overwhelmed, which takes the joy out of our work. Bottom line: Procrastination is costly to all involved.
~ John G. Miller
A man's deepest fear is that he is not good enough or that he is incompetent. He compensates for this fear by focusing on increasing his power and competence. Success, achievement, and efficiency are foremost in his life ... A man appears most uncaring when he is afraid.
~ John Gray
Martians value power, competency, efficiency, and achievement. They are always doing things to prove themselves and develop their power and skills. Their sense of self is defined through their ability to achieve results. They experience fulfillment primarily through success and accomplishment.
~ John Gray
There was once a Dixie Mafia, a Redneck Mafia, a Texas Mafia, all similar gangs of thugs. It looks like most of them were long on legend and short on criminal efficiency. Just a bunch of Bubbas who liked to sell whiskey and break legs.
~ John Grisham
Empezarás trabajando mucho y a todas horas, pero no podrás hacerlo eternamente. De modo que comenzarás a descubrir atajos. Créeme, Mitch, cuando lleves un año con nosotros sabrás cómo trabajar diez horas y facturar el doble. Es una especie de sexto sentido que adquirimos los abogados. —
~ John Grisham
worked four thousand hours but billed only three thousand.
~ John Grisham
In his thirty-four years at the same desk, Ed had processed all of them.
~ John Grisham
Don't waste a second but never hurry.
~ John Grisham
I'm a human first, then a lawyer. It's possible to be both—not quite so much on the spread there. We have to be efficient.
~ John Grisham
Each exam took twenty minutes, so they did three per hour, about twenty-five each day, six days a week.
~ John Grisham
Note that training your body to use fat more efficiently and spare glycogen happens only when exercising at moderate intensity, not when riding harder.
~ John Hughes
IF WE CAN DO IT IN UNDER FOUR SECONDS, WE CAN DO IT IN UNDER THREE," he said. "IT JUST TAKES A LITTLE MORE FAITH." "It takes more practice," I told him irritably. "FAITH TAKES PRACTICE," said Owen Meany.
~ John Irving
You oughta carry a calculator," Emma told him, "or at least write everything down.
~ John Irving
The use of leverage can promote efficiency by enabling risk to be held and managed more efficiently. But the use of leverage provides opportunities for tailgaters and gamblers with other people's money, and creates many opportunities to fall victim to the winner's curse.
~ John Kay
I have taken to arriving at the office one hour later than I am expected. Therefore, I am far more rested and refreshed when I do arrive, and I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.
~ John Kennedy Toole
One does not fire or sack higher-income personnel; in the interest of greater efficiency, they are only shed.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.
~ John Knowles
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
~ John Lennon
The world's population spends 500,000 hours a day typing Internet security codes.
~ John Lloyd
The Republic of Ireland didn't have postcodes until 2015.
~ John Lloyd
Introducing 'Lite' – The new way to spell 'Light', but with 20 per cent fewer letters. JERRY SEINFELD
~ John Lloyd