Quotes About Efficiency

Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

The problem as he saw it was not how short our lives are, but rather how badly most of us use what time we have.

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

One of my favorite things to tell people when I'm coaching them, is every great executive I've ever known has almost unlimited free time. The most incredible thing someone can learn is how to build that time. If a meeting can be done in five minutes there is no reason to take 15 minutes. I have learned through experience how to prioritize tasks and analyze what needs to be addressed first.

When you're a one man show, you have to focus on the most important thing to get done today.

To an engineer, only the ingenuity of pragmatic solutions is poetic. Function

He was a sorting machine, boxing the news by category and priority, forwarding tips to various departments.

Washington? A city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

Dr. Shingo defines process as "a flow by which an object is transformed from raw material into finished product," as opposed to operations which is "the flow of tasks performed by human workers on products," the focus needs to be on improving processes and not operations

Getting to the root cause to eliminate problems and defects is close to the heart of lean manufacturing.  Just solving a problem to allow it to occur again is such a waste of human ingenuity.  Dr. Shingo would want us to spend a little more time up front, to investigate causes a little deeper to insure that the same problem would never happen again.

Lowering the river of inventory is the heart of lean manufacturing.  Keep this centered in your mind and practice it.  People have a tendency to complicate things.  It is only because they really don't fully understand and appreciate the simplicity and power of reducing inventory.

Lean starts with customer service and ends with customer service.  You answer the following question, "How can I please my customers by delivering to them exactly what they want, exactly when they want it, in the right quantity and in the right quality at the lowest possible cost?

The Harada Method is the Human Side of Lean.

The student should master the entire work in not more than two hours.

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

Our squadron commander said, 'You've got to shoot down four enemy planes before you're shot down yourself because that's what the odds are. Otherwise you're wasting your time.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how".

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

La macchina tecnologicamente più efficiente che l'uomo abbia mai inventato è il libro.