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Quotes about Efficiency

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
— Aristotle
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature does nothing uselessly.
— Aristotle
The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.
— Henry Ford
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Power and speed be hands and feet.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
— Will Rogers
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
— Will Rogers
Just be glad you're not getting all the government you're paying for
— Will Rogers
The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.
— William Hazlitt
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work
— William James