Quotes about Efficiency

(Miele) really thought the process through. They did such a great job designing these washers and dryers. I got more thrill out of them than I have out of any piece of high tech in years.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.

It is found by experience, that those instruments are the most perfect, which are each of them contrived for its specific use.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.