Quotes about Efficiency

Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.

Experience has taught me, said Peter (...) that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the 'bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy.

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

That man is idle who can do something better.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.

To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.

When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.