Quotes About Efficiency

As the Big Shift takes hold, companies are no longer places that exist to drive down costs by getting increasingly bigger. They're places that support and organize talented individuals to get better faster by working with others. The rationale of the firm shifts from scalable efficiency to scalable learning—the ability to improve performance more rapidly and learn faster by effectively integrating more and more participants distributed across traditional institutional boundaries.

Some automatic responses are good — they're skills, and we need them for life and labor. But the tendency to accumulate programming tends to have a life of its own — or more accurately, to steal the life that belongs to us.

When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking.

He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole life had any talent for making money.

When asked how long they thought the Empire State job would take to build, Paul Starrett said that they could tear down the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and finish the new building in eighteen months. He also said that their fee for all this would be insignificant compared with the amount of money the corporation would save by having the construction completed in such a short time.

It was not that her brain was less efficient than theirs, within its limits it was more so; but it was like the keyboard of an adding machine as opposed to that of typewriters.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Don't mistake activity for achievement. To produce results, tasks must be well organized and properly executed; otherwise, it's no different from children running around the playground—everybody is doing something, but nothing is being done; lots of activity, no achievement.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

If you don´t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Be quick - but don't hurry.

DON'T MISTAKE ACTIVITY FOR ACHIEVEMENT

Remember That a Great Quarter in Basketball or Business Starts with a Great Minute.

If you don't have the time to do it right, how can you have the time to do it over?

Why does the person with the least to say usually take the longest to say it?

we have more efficient, more focused, and more effective ways of achieving the ends we want.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Why use a sledgehammer when a butterfly net will suffice?

The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

The best way to simplify life is to set your priorities straight.

Do not let idleness set in, not even for a second, as seconds will lead to minute, minutes will lead to hour, hours will lead to day, days will lead to week, weeks will lead to month, months will lead to year, years will be wasted before you realise there is no more time left to waste.

If you don't take the time to sharpen your axe, you'll spend your whole life hacking away at missed opportunities.

Never put off tomorrow what you can do today...

Time doesn't stop for anyone. You can either keep up with time, waste time or be behind time.