Quotes About Efficiency

Trying to consistently pick investments that are going to beat their benchmarks is like trying to win a marathon wearing muddy boots. There is a lot of drag, and your odds of winning are very low. The high costs associated with attempting to beat the market will almost guarantee sluggish results.

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

In the bad old seventies, when Mondale was Veep, and the government still worried about things like fuel and noise, the Vice President flew on small, efficient DC-9S.

It's easy. Make every second count.

Mit Sport erhöht man die Produktivität

Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into ten-minute units, and don't waste even a minute.

Big Mac started life selling paper cups. He was someone else who didn't believe in wasting time.

Are there things we can weed out that we don't need?

porque antes no podían tener contacto con la gente de la gerencia, pues "siempre estaban en reunión".

la investigación revela que los equipos funcionan mejor cuando los miembros saben claramente cuáles son sus propias responsabilidades pero no tienen certezas sobre la manera como pueden alcanzar las metas del equipo.

El matemático francés Blaise Pascal describió muy bien este problema en su célebre frase: "Lamento haber escrito esta carta tan larga, pero no tenía tiempo para hacerla más corta".

Being a leader involves choosing the right men to do the right job and letting them do it their way.

Antonio follow a multi-active time system, that is, they do many things at once, often in an unplanned order.

Linear-active people, like Swedes, Swiss, Dutch and Germans, do one thing at a time, concentrate hard on that thing and do it within a scheduled time period. These people think that in this way they are more efficient and get more done. Multi-active people think they get more done their way. Let us look again at Sven and Antonio.

Our leaders keep saying phrases like, "Let the market decide." or "The market will get to the efficient outcome." Really? The market is a very flawed institution that does not deserve the nearly religious kind of endorsement of it that our leaders are eager to provide over and over again.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that).

Imagine that you are about to purchase a jacket for ($125)[$15] and a calculator for ($15)[$125]. The calculator salesman informs you that the calculator you wish to buy is on sale for ($10)[$120] at the other branch of the store, located a twenty-minute drive away. Would you make the trip to the other store?

This confirmed my longheld suspicion that many people use spreadsheets as an alternative to thinking.

Trayless cafeterias. Cafeteria managers have been taking a keen interest in reducing food waste. Seeing how easy it is to load up a tray with extra food that often goes uneaten and extra napkins that go unused, curious managers and students at Alfred University in New York tested a trayless policy over two days. When trays weren't offered, food and beverage waste dropped between 30 and 50 percent!

Humans have limited time and brainpower. As a result, they use simple rules of thumb—heuristics—to help them make judgments.

no propugnamos un gobierno más grande, sino sólo mejor gobernanza.

computers are now often an essential component of a good design.

I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that's a pretty small car!