Quotes about Efficiency

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again.

I like to work and am a focused person.

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.

Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.

A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.

What gets measured gets managed.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

The secret of Washington's ability to accomplish so much was his mastery of time management. Consider his statements on time. "What to me is more valuable, my time, that I most regard," he wrote to James McHenry, September 14, 1799. Similarly, he wrote to James Anderson on December 10, 1799, "… time, which is of more importance than is generally imagined.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.