Best 164 quotes in «efficiency quotes» category

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency.

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?

When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.

We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow.

When it comes to efficiency and effectiveness, I would always start with effectiveness. I am interested in achieving a certain outcome. Only secondarily do I worry about achieving it as efficiently as possible.

Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

You have to understand as a marketer that consumers are functioning in the age of efficiency.

As we more easily get in touch with others, we seem to lose touch with ourselves. We can’t solve all of our problems through others; sometimes, we have to look within, rearrange, and reconsider things from a renewed perspective.

A prosperous and sustainable future necessarily demands responsible and efficient management of our affairs: responsible co-creation.

A Spiritual Warrior looks for the most efficient and effective way to accomplish something -- the most direct way is a living truth.

Birds fly more efficiently than aeroplanes. Nature is the superior engineer.

Be diligent daily, be efficient weekly, be proficient monthly, and you will be productive annually.

At home I am a man, at work I am a machine.

By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, Mikhail Suslov was talking with your senators in the Kremlin. And he said, "In fact the significance of our trade is more political than economic. We can get along without your trade." That is a lie. The whole existence of our slaveowners from beginning to end relies on Western economic assistance....The Soviet economy has an extremely low level of efficiency. What is done here by a few people, by a few machines, in our country takes tremendous crowds of workers and enormous amounts of material. Therefore, the Soviet economy cannot deal with every problem at once: war, space (which is part of the war effort), heavy industry, light industry, and at the same time feed and clothe its own population. The forces of the entire Soviet economy are concentrated on war, where you don't help them. But everything lacking, everything needed to fill the gaps, everything necessary to free the people, or for other types of industry, they get from you. So indirectly you are helping their military preparations. You are helping the Soviet police state.

Do first what you don’t want to do most.

...certain business leaders mistakenly believe that time on-task equates with task completion and productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was untrue. It is a misguided fallacy, and an expensive one, too.

Determination is the first step of ladder to show Efficiency.

Dieser Zwang zu Überfluss ist weder effizient für die Umwelt, noch für den Geldbeutel.

Efficiency, n. The speed and frictionlessness with which money moves from the poor to the rich.

Efficiency is to do what is effective, achieve high customer satisfaction with less operating cost, and improve employee productivity with good teamwork.

Economics has made good on its promise to deliver prosperity and democratic freedom to much of the world, but in doing away with the age-old problems of humanity, it has opened up a crisis of an entirely new variety.

Efficiency is often the enemy of fun. It doesn't have to be.

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

Essentialism is not abotu how to get more things done; it's about how to get the right things done. It doesn't mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.

Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at another angle and you'll find the solution, besides quite entertaining.

Good managers don't set a goal to increase efficiency, but rather an implementation of business process improvements that result in higher efficiency as well.

Good fortune and efficiency are closely related concepts. They help you get what you want more quickly and easily than you would through effort alone.

Good tradecraft keeps espionage routine and boring.

Governments don't have to be efficient, the less efficient they are, the more money they take from the citizens.

How you try is more important than how hard you try.

HLADE’S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it.

Having helps you find the best point of application for yourself. It’s a system that lets you achieve maximum efficiency with minimum effort.

I don't have enough time. I am being pulled in too many directions. Someone or something is stealing my time. Whether you complain that you are overworked and overextended or you believe that other people, obligations, or competing loyalties are forcing you to postpone or cancel your own aspirations or dreams, you're basically saying one thing: you are inefficient. Yes, it's your fault. It's bullshit and you can change that.

I'd rather do more with the same, then the same with less.

Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people.

If the successor does better than the ancestor world remembers the successor, like the maker of a car, is still remembered but not the maker of a bullock cart.

If there's an easier, more efficient way to do something, trust a lazy person to find it.

If you are inefficient, you have a right to be afraid of the consequences.

... In a ROWE* people don't have schedules. They show up when they want. They don't have to be in the office at certain time, or anytime. They just have to get their work done. How they do it ? When they do it ? Where they do it ? It's totally up to them. Meetings & this kind of environments are Optional. What happens ... ? Almost across the board ! - Productivity goes up - Worker Engagement goes up - Worker Satisfaction goes up - Turnovers goes down - Autonomy .. Mastery .. Purpose - these are the building blocks of new way of doing things." ______________________________________________________________ *ROWE: results-only work environment

In recent years we might be compared to a team of doctors issuing prescriptions to cure or to immunize our members against spiritual diseases. Each time some moral or spiritual ailment was diagnosed, we have rushed to the pharmacy to concoct another remedy, encapsulate it as a program and send it out with pages of directions for use... Over medication, over-programming is a critically serious problem.