Quotes about Optimization

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

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.

Apply the 80/ 20 Rule to everything: Twenty percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results. Always concentrate your efforts on that top 20 percent.

Innumerable conditions must be exquisitely optimized for the support of humanity and of civilization. Many of them are highly time variable. Evidence showing that a wide variety of independent conditions all reached optimality during the identical narrow epoch when human beings appeared on the cosmic and terrestrial scene testifies of supernatural design and purpose rather than mere coincidence.

Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of

If we can measure it, we can do it faster. If we can put it in a manual, we can outsource it. If we can outsource it, we can get it cheaper.

The business model should be such that the employees needed possess the lowest possible level of skill necessary to fulfill the functions for which each is intended.

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

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

Optimization hinders evolution.

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