Quotes About Optimization

Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best.

Your lean process should be a lean process.

And nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Continuous improvement is not about the things you do well — that's work. Continuous improvement is about removing the things that get in the way of your work. The headaches, the things that slow you down, that's what continuous improvement is all about.

Therefore, Simon argues, when they make their choices, human beings satisfice, that is, we look for 'good enough' solutions rather than the best ones, as in the Neoclassical theory.25

Tal y como lo planteó Downs, el hombre racional «persigue sus objetivos de un modo tal que, en la medida de sus posibilidades, utilizará la mínima cantidad de recursos escasos por unidad de resultados obtenidos». Esto también exigía centrarse en un aspecto concreto de un individuo y no en «toda su personalidad».

Efficiency is a ratio, not an absolute.

Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself

The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.

As CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, we used a concept called 'search and reapply,' which meant that if we found better ways of doing something, then we would do it.

By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.

Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How's that for incentive to be effective and efficient?

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.

Using people to leverage a refined process multiplies production; using people as a solution to a poor process multiplies problems.

1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).

80% of the results come from 20% of the effort and time.