Quotes About Efficiency

A closed list is a way of applying limits to our work in order to increase our efficiency.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #9: TAKE CARE OF THE MINUTES, AND THE HOURS WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.

So chalk up one plus for Nordic weather: It helped you get where you were going a whole lot faster.

Here are the three keys: Get in (quickly and efficiently describe the issue), neutralize the problem (by explaining how to handle it or why it isn't really a problem), and get out (move on to the next topic —do not linger or go into excess detail). Here's an example.

The smarter you make the people who work for you look, the smarter you are going to look as a manager.

The quickest way to make a lasting negative impression is to waste someone's time:

It's far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.

Typinator, Typeit4me, or ActiveWords can type the current date on command. (Bit levers are covered in the "other essentials

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

In Python, practicality often beats aesthetics.

Think about it: because we copied the original version, if we ever have to change the way raises are given (and we probably will), we'll have to change the code in two places, not one. Although this is a small and artificial example, it's also representative of a universal issue — anytime you're tempted to program by copying code this way, you probably want to look for a better approach.

By yielding results as it goes, the walker does not require its clients to wait for an entire tree to be scanned.

as this little function isn't needed elsewhere, it was written inline as a lambda.

We'd do better-if it were possible-just to eat the oil directly. For example, it takes 127 calories of fuel to fly in each calorie of iceberg lettuce from the United States to the UK. According to one estimate, the US food system consumes ten times more fossil energy than it produces in food energy. With

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

Not only is federal spending out of control, it is also inefficient and poorly monitored. A recent report issued by the comptroller general of the United States, Gene Dodaro, disclosed that duplicative or overlapping federal spending programs exist in 132 areas, from teacher training to job training.40 Dodaro also found that improper payments by eighteen different federal departments in 2012 cost the federal government a whopping $107 billion.41

Forget about earnings. That's a priesthood of the accounting profession," he would preach, unrelentingly. "What you're really after is appreciating assets. You want to own as much of that asset as you can; then you want to finance it as efficiently as possible." 6 And above all else, make sure that the deals you do avoid as much in taxes as is legally possible.

We (the British) invented bureaucracy. India just perfected it.

Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

rocket mass heater, a homemade furnace so efficient that you can hold your open palm over the chimney. There's no heat or smoke or pollution because everything gets burned. Whereas conventional furnaces gobble valuable resources like wood or gas, only to create waste in the form of smoke and escaped carbon, these devices transform waste into a valuable resource: heat.

There is something you have that all of the most wildly successful people in our history have also had. Twenty four hours in a day.

My shower at home would then be for weekends only and would probably only need to be cleaned every few months.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.

All the modern inconveniences.