Quotes about Efficiency

Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.

Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.

A sharp stick is better than a blunt sword.

Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.

A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Culture is a way of working together toward common goals that have been followed so frequently and so successfully that people don't even think about trying to do things another way. If a culture has formed, people will autonomously do what they need to do to be successful. Those

The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That's a dangerous way to build a strategy.

progressive automation will probably lead to an enormous increase in the leisure hours available to the average worker.