Quotes about Efficiency
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.
— Edith Stein
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
— Andrew Carnegie
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
— Peter Drucker
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.
— Bill Gates
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
— Peter Drucker
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.
— Peter Drucker
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.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
— Seth Godin
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.
— Brian Tracy
Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.
— Stephen Hawking
All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.
— Ellen White
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.
— Aristotle