Efficient Quotes

• The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

  Alexis Carrel

  Morning, Night, Way To Live

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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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• Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Perfectionism

  "Here’s How Elizabeth Gilbert (Bestselling Author of Eat, Pray, Love) Writes". Interview with Kelton Reid, www.copyblogger.com. December 12, 2013.

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

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Automation, Efficiency

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

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• Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Fear, Atheism

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• Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Morning, Atheist

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.220, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Fuel Efficiency, Advantage, Type

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

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• Once all come to know that by the concentration of the mind on one point, on one principle, on one desire, a power is radiated to that point with creative nature and demonstrative abilities, man will think more carefully, more constructively and more efficiently

  Harvey Spencer Lewis

  Inspirational, Power, Men

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Climbing Up, Top Management

  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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• No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

  Murray Leinster

  Appreciation, Men, Doe

  Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.

  Paul Krugman

  Europe, Two, Oil

  "Stranded in Suburbia". www.nytimes.com. May 19, 2008.

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• In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Life, Fighting, Keys

  Twitter post from Mar 15, 2011

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• Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.

  Mark Skousen

  Technology, Simple, Banking

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• The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spirituality, Silent, Subtle

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.173, Vintage

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• All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

  Akio Morita

  Marketing, Needs, World

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• No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Leader, Belief, Initiative

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.192, Penguin

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• The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Mean, Technology

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.

  Steve Jobs

  Cutting, Use, Done

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

  James Dyson

  Electric Motors, Quantum, Leap

  "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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• The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

  Peter Drucker

  Wise, Effectiveness, Together

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.187, Routledge

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• Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

  Jim DeMint

  Government, Fuel, Demand

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• It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

  Deborah Bull

  Fitness, Weight, Body

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• Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Light, Disease, Publicity

  Other People's Money ch. 5 (1914) See RalphWaldo Emerson 42

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• Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

  Jacques Lacan

  Running, Aggravation, Risk

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