Quotes about Efficiency

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

I work for ABC. If the thing that ABC is paying me for is storytelling - not to make sure that a costume is exactly right or all those other things - then it is up to me to find the most creative space possible so that that function of my job can happen.