Quotes about Efficiency

Go through your life regularly and practice "creative abandonment": Consciously determine the activities that you are going to discontinue so that you have more time to spend on those tasks that can really make a difference to your future.

Today, the best businesses position themselves as "partners" with their customers, vendors, and suppliers. Instead of spreading their business over a large number of other companies, they consolidate their business with a single supplier with whom they work closely to develop high-quality relationships that lead to better quality, greater efficiency, and eventually, lower prices and higher profits for both parties.

This discipline of systematic time planning can be very helpful to you. Many people have told me that the habit of taking a couple of hours at the end of each week to plan the coming week has increased their productivity dramatically and changed their lives completely. This technique will work for you as well.

Make work appointments with yourself and then discipline yourself to keep them. Set aside thirty-, sixty-, and ninety-minute time segments that you use to work on and complete important tasks. Many highly productive people schedule specific activities in preplanned time slots all day long. These people build their work lives around accomplishing key tasks one at a time.

The number one reason why some people get more work done faster is because they are absolutely clear about their goals and objectives and they don't deviate from them.

Get the right people on the bus, get the wrong people off the bus, and then get the right people in the right seats on the bus.

It takes only about 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan out your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to two hours (100 to 120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort throughout the day.

Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.

There is a special way that you can accelerate your progress toward becoming the highly productive, effective, efficient person that you want to be.

What sort of a transportation system d'you call this? The more popular it is the slower it goes!... 'You have to devise a system that goes faster the more popular it is, so it can cope! It's perfectly obvious!

You've got to make it easy for the judges to mark. It's got to be clean elements.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.