Quotes about Efficiency
The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.
— Aesop
That man is idle who can do something better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.
— Confucius
If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.
— George Clooney
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
— Peter Drucker
We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.
— Stephen Covey
When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.
— Peter Drucker
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
— Aristotle
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson