Quotes about Efficiency

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.

Not to talk with people although they can be talked with is to waste people. To talk with people although they can't be talked with is to waste words. A man of understanding does not waste people, but he also does not waste words.

Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

measure my accomplishments," said Daniel W. Josselyn, "not by how tired I am at the end of the day, but how tired I am not." He said, "When I feel particularly tired at the end of the day, or when irritability proves that my nerves are tired, I know beyond question that it has been an inefficient day both as to quantity and quality.

Good Working Habit No. 2: Do Things in the Order of Their Importance.

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.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

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.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.