Quotes about Efficiency

They order, said I, this matter better in France.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use

A beard well lathered is half shaven.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.

Not to talk with people although they can be talked with is to waste people. To talk with people although they can't be talked with is to waste words. A man of understanding does not waste people, but he also does not waste words.

Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

measure my accomplishments," said Daniel W. Josselyn, "not by how tired I am at the end of the day, but how tired I am not." He said, "When I feel particularly tired at the end of the day, or when irritability proves that my nerves are tired, I know beyond question that it has been an inefficient day both as to quantity and quality.

Good Working Habit No. 2: Do Things in the Order of Their Importance.