Quotes About Efficiency

Toyota ha considerado desde hace tiempo que una de las ventajas competitivas de la compañía es su capacidad para resolver problemas de forma permanente y para mejorar procesos estacionarios. El capital intelectual de la compañía es tremendo gracias a que la totalidad del personal de la compañía está encargada de resolver los problemas propios de su puesto. Declaración de KATHI HANLEY

management: The systematic pursuit of desired conditions by utilizing human capabilities in a concerted way.

Work hard AND smart.

A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

he believed that a man must learn constantly. He loathed waste of any kind,

Noa knew how proper Japanese people behaved and could imitate their mannerisms faultlessly, so he ate whatever was put in front of him and was grateful. However, he preferred to eat a nourishing bowl of simple food quickly and be done with it. He ate the way most working Koreans did: Tasty food was merely necessary fuel, something to be eaten in a rush so you could return to your work.

The reason I pull Irish exits is not because I think I'm too busy and cool to be bothered with pleasantries. It's that when there is a gathering of more than thirty people I don't want to waste your time with hellos and good-byes. I think it's actually the more polite thing to do, because I'm not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me. Then other people feel like they have to stop what they're doing and hug me, too. It's time-wasting dominoes.

Why is it that chatting with friends is energizing, but making small talk with acquaintances takes such monumental effort?

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

firefighters cannot extinguish a fire in a twenty- or thirty-thousand-square-foot open floor area in a high-rise building. A fire company advancing a 2½-inch hoseline with a 1¼-inch nozzle discharges only three hundred gallons per minute and can extinguish only about twenty-five hundred square feet of fire.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

enumeró las características fundamentales de las organizaciones burocráticas: puestos de trabajo específicos, con derechos, obligaciones, responsabilidades y límites a su autoridad, detallados y bien conocidos, así como un sistema claro de supervisión, subordinación y unidad de mando. Estas

sin una organización fiable y competente, o —por usar sus términos— sin una burocracia, era imposible ejercer verdaderamente el poder.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise... Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope... Our four... no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear, surprise... I'll come in again.

If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, it will take fifteen minutes.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

In short, and this is a highly important point to grasp, the depression is the "recovery" process, and the end of the depression heralds the return to normal, and to optimum efficiency.

Su renta por trabajo es más cara y su ocio más barato, así que tenderá a trabajar menos.