Efficiency Quotes

• There's a way to do it better - find it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Business, Creativity

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• If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Wall, Priorities In Life

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.117, Mango Media Inc.

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• Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

  Peter Drucker

  Teamwork, Effectiveness, Team Building

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.44, Routledge

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• Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Life, Wise, Time

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2001). “The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker”, Routledge

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• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Automation, Operations

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Powerful, Animal, Mma

  FaceBook post by Georges St-Pierre from May 25, 2011

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Business, Technology, Marketing

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Don't equate activity with efficiency.

  Harvey Mackay

  Shuffling, Activity, Friday Afternoon

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

  Brian Tracy

  Achievement, Quality, Degrees

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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• There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Economics, Economy, Economic Efficiency

  "Our future energy strategy cannot depend on renewables alone" by John Hayes, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2012.

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• Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

  David Seabury

  Energy, Sparks, Plugs

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• When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.

  Linda Stone

  Desire, Different, Tasks

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• Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Play, Roles, Purpose

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• Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.

  John W. Snow

  Play, Doubt, Facts

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• 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

  Liars, Lying, Wish

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Government, Fuel Economy, Way

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Worst Enemy, Common Decency, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”

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• What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

  Lois Capps

  Creativity, Use, Energy

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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• We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

  Charles M. Vest

  Education, Support, Trying

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

  Robert Burton

  Inspirational, Confidence, Ambition

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• The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

  James Fallows

  Stars, Women's Beauty, Four

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