Quotes About Efficiency

People don't get into planes because they want to fly, they get into planes because they want to get somewhere else faster. What's produced the aeroplane is not so much a desire to fly as a rebellion against the tyranny of time and space.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic.

But an unpleasant thing should be done quickly if it must be done at all.

why contractual incompleteness matters. The reason is that the renegotiation process imposes several costs. Some of these are ex post costs, incurred at the renegotiation stage itself, and others are ex ante costs, incurred in anticipation of renegotiation.

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

Apart from nembutsu, we can cure our fatigue by sitting truly well in meditation, even if we shorten the time of our sleep. This has been proved by many who have experienced zazen. Ten minutes of zazen before reading and the momentary immersion in samadhi before work—how well they help us enjoy our work and reading, and to what a great extent they enhance our efficiency!

Our theory," explained Fried, "is that we'll see better results when people have a long stretch of uninterrupted time.

Drucker argued that this decentralization was key to the success of GM.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Never allow yourself to dwell on your weaknesses, your failures, your unhappy condition. Hold firmly the ideal of your efficiency, your competency, your divinity, the conviction that you were made for health, success, and happiness, and struggle vigorously to attain that which will help you to realize this condition.

Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.

Principles are proven through performance.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Entrepreneurs juggle multiple responsibilities every day.

Time is everything. Speed is of the essence.

So little time and so little to do.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone

Carey was one of those appalling people who wake refreshed and ready for anything every morning about an hour before everyone else, and then bounce around whistling happily, avoiding death only because they move faster than the people who want to kill them.

I once asked her if she was happy. "That depends on what I am able to get done

A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.