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Quotes about Efficiency

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
— Stephen Covey
You shouldn't lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning gone long before that time. A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
— Emily Bronte
Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
— David Brainerd
I'm a master at getting as much in a day as possible.
— Gillian Tans
Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.
— Abraham Lincoln
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
— Henry Ford
I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.
— Diane von Furstenberg
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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— Joseph Heller
Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.
— Wendell Berry
Experience has taught me, said Peter (...) that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the 'bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy.
— Dorothy Sayers