Quotes About Efficiency

Energy, not time, is the main currency in high performance.

If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

I was proud that the four of us responded as a team. In perfect unison, like a well-oiled combat machine, we turned and ran for our lives.

The secret of effectiveness is to know what really counts, then do what really counts, and not worry about all the rest.

It was Daphne Wood who had taught him the value of getting in there with one swift, mean blow rather than prancing around with a duelist's finesse.

She needed more time, there simply wasn't enough of it. This was the only way she could think of making it (setting her alarm five minutes earlier every day). Not making it exactly, if you could make it from scratch - brand new time- that would be fantastic.

Rather than relying on a notebook, you should work with two spreadsheets on your computer; you use one to list all the companies you're aware of in the field or fields you're interested in and the other to list every single contact you have.

I don't mind being lord of all I survey but I don't want to have to work at it. It just wouldn't be practical.

What does he want you to do? What does she? And how can this be accomplished with the least effort possible so that time will be left for the real, important things? Here we are, figuring out how to survive in a hive of hierarchies, and they want us to memorize dates and decline agricola.

But you will no doubt agree that the very best staff plans are those which give clear margins of error to allow for those days when an employee is ill or for one reason or another below par.

Car engines were

Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler's neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.

We need to keep going," Daniel said. "We lost a lot of time yesterday." "What? Are we on a schedule?" Hayley said. "Is there a bus waiting to pick us up somewhere?

Packing light' wasn't possible. 'Packing light enough not to stall the train engine' seemed a noble goal to Evie's way of thinking.

I have things to not do, and not a lot of time to not do them in.

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

politicians often had the knack of seeming to know everyone intimately. Either they had remarkable memories, or their secretaries reminded them efficiently.

Never call a meeting until the outcome is a foregone conclusion.

And when things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.

cuanto más sencillas son las cosas, menos errores se cometen.

No habían perdido ni un minuto de su valioso tiempo en dormir.

keep citizens waiting hours. A dose of German efficiency would do them a world of good. The same went for the disorderly Italians. Eastern Europe would benefit most of all. The old Russian Empire was still in the Middle Ages, with ragged peasants starving in hovels, and women flogged for adultery. Germany would bring order, justice, and modern agricultural methods.

Galliéni, a crusty old soldier, had been brought out of retirement. He was famous for holding meetings at which no one was allowed to sit down: he believed people reached decisions faster that way.

He was famous for holding meetings at which no one was allowed to sit down: he believed people reached decisions faster that way. The