Quotes about Efficiency
The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
— Wendell Berry
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
— Harry S. Truman
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
— Harry S. Truman
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
— John Maxwell
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.
— Edith Stein
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
— Andrew Carnegie
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
— Peter Drucker
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.
— Bill Gates
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
— Peter Drucker
The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.
— Peter Drucker
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.
— Ezra Taft Benson