Quotes about Optimization

Say "no" to the good and say "yes" to the best.

Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.

Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best.

Peter Drucker says, "Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

The Pareto Principle 20 percent of your priorities will give you 80 percent of your production IF you spend your time, energy, money, and personnel on the top 20 percent of your priorities.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

You could use the 80/20 rule. Give 80 percent of your effort to the top 20 percent (most important) activities. Another way is to focus on exceptional opportunities that promise a huge return. It comes down to this: give your attention to the areas that bear fruit.

I'm a master at getting as much in a day as possible.

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

Good things happen to a team when a player takes the place where he adds the most value. Great things happen when all the players on the team take the role that maximizes their strengths—their talent, skill, and experience.

The law of increasing returns says that the more you focus on doing the few things that represent the most valuable use of your time, the better you become at those activities and the less time it takes you to accomplish each one.

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.