Efficiency Quotes

... 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

~ Daniel H. Pink

Progress and motion are not synonymous.

~ Tim Fargo

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

~ Tim Fargo

The desire to “do more in less time” is not a neutral force in our culture; it is the handmaiden of miserable experts, specialists, and leaders. Not everyone has rushed to become efficient. Something else exists on the periphery: an inefficient utopia, a culture of consensus, collectives, and do-it-yourself ethics. A place where time is not bought, sold, or leased and no clock is the final arbiter of our worth. For many people in North America, the problem is not just poverty but lack of time to do the things that are actually meaningful. This is not a symptom of personal failures but the consequence of a time-obsessed society. Today, desire for efficiency springs from the scarcity model, which is the foundation of capitalism. Time is seen as a limited resource when we get caught up in meaningless jobs, mass-produced entertainment, and – the common complaint of activists – tedious meanings.

~ Curious George Brigade

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.

~ Philip Roscoe

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

We are lost, but we're making good time.

~ Star Trek V

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

~ Winston S. Churchill

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

~ Herman Melville

Put on a sweater.

~ Jimmy Carter

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

~ Murad S. Shah

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.

~ Karl Barth

Your business should serve specific needs for specific demographics of people. That way, your marketing efforts will be more laser-focused and effective.

~ Kevin J. Donaldson

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results.

~ Tim Fargo

In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.

~ Cameron Conaway

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

~ Clifford Cohen

Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.

~ Curious George Brigade

Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

~ Bill Gates

When you expand a business as fast as McDonald's did, part of the strength you have is the process and the efficiency.

~ Steve Easterbrook

No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.

~ Edward Whitacre

A good attitude is really important. And a sense of optimism, someone who has ideas and isn't afraid to pitch them no matter what level she is. Someone who is proactive. Someone with efficiency and common sense. They don't always go hand-in-hand, common sense and, well, everything else.

~ Eva Chen

I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - the men who have aided in upbuilding their country - the men who have contributed to the efficiency and happiness of their fellow men.

~ Charles M. Schwab

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

~ Zac Goldsmith

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

~ Hannah Arendt

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

~ Eric C. Anderson

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

~ John C. Calhoun

There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens.

~ Steve Daines

Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.

~ Bernie Sanders

Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.

~ Elon Musk

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

~ Jay Inslee

Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

Clinton understands that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and is one of the great environmental crises facing our planet. She knows that we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and move aggressively to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.

~ Bernie Sanders

The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection.

~ Li Keqiang

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

~ Aldous Huxley