Quotes about Efficiency

Technology has made our lives both more efficient and more demanding.

When employees at all levels share a common understanding of where the company is headed, what success looks like, whom their competitors are, and what needs to be achieved to claim victory, there is a remarkably low level of wasted time and energy and a powerful sense of traction.

It is an eternal truth that men receive more pay for their ABILITY TO GET OTHERS TO PERFORM, than they could possibly earn by their own efforts.

by the effective use of one's time.

Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.

If we had borrowed we should not have been under the necessity of finding methods to cheapen production.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Short cuts make for long delays.

All the while your brain is performing up to ten quadrillion calculations per second using only ten watts of power.5 A computer would require a gigawatt of power produced by a nuclear power plant to pull off the same performance.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.

I now spend my time solely on those activities that only I can do, and even then only on those activities that have the highest return. These