128 Being Efficient Quotes

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Famous Being Efficient Quotes

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. — Kin Hubbard

Speed is not merely about frantically working faster. It’s about figuring out the best way to accomplish a task with efficient methods. — Paul Jarvis

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

Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast. — Susan Wojcicki

Get maximum effect from minimum effort. — Bruce Lee

The more efficient you get, the more you become “a limitless reservoir for other people’s expectations,” in the words of the management expert Jim Benson. — Oliver Burkeman

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. — Arthur Nielsen

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. — Arthur C. Nielsen

What is done well is done quickly enough. — Augustus

The faster you work, the more work you get done. — Andrew Tate

If they pay you what you’re worth, then you can get your time back, and if you get your time back, then you can be hyperefficient. — Naval Ravikant

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. - Bruce Lee

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. — Bruce Lee

One thing that I learned from judo... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort. — Ronda Rousey

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. — Tony Robbins

Short Being Efficient Quotes

  • The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency — Gifford Pinchot
  • When two forces unite, their efficiency double. — Isaac Newton
  • Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself. — Phil Crosby
  • Secret for moving fast at a startup: don't do tomorrow what could be done today. — Greg Brockman
  • It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective. — Stephen Covey
  • It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. — William of Ockham
  • It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. — William Of Occam
  • The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner — Sayings

Top 10 Being Efficient Quotes

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance. — J. R. D. Tata

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

As a worker you want to be as leveraged as possible. — Naval Ravikant

Common mistake in a startup is to serialize subprojects that could be parallelized. — Greg Brockman

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation. — Margaret Chase Smith

When something has to be done, do it! — Bernard Arnault

In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing. — Assar Lindbeck

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create. — Kazimir Malevich

It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it. — Matthew Walker

The Efficient Markets Hypothesis fails because humans are herd animals, not independent rational actors. Thus the best investors tend to be antisocial and contrarian. — Naval Ravikant

A Good Life Is Quotes

Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me. — Sojourner Truth

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on. — Pharrell Williams

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. — Carl Rogers

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. — Dennis Wholey

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. — Woody Allen

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. - Ruth Graham

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man. — Al Capone

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. — Lois Wyse

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. — Jerry Garcia

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire — Carl Jung

When You Are Perfect Quotes

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most. - Drew Barrymore

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most. — Drew Barrymore

When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies. — Yasmin Mogahed

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. — Brian Tracy

I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straight teeth. You stop seeing the acne scar or dimple in the chin. Those things start to blur, and suddenly you see them, the colors, the life inside the shell, and beauty takes on a whole new meaning. — Amy Harmon

Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change. — Drake

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way. — Pete Townshend

When you believe the work before you is the single piece that will forever define you, it’s difficult to let go. The urge for perfection is overwhelming. It’s too much. We are frozen, and sometimes ends up convincing ourselves that discarding the entire work is the only way to move forward. — Rick Rubin

I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.' — Mazie Hirono

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. — Donald Miller

When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. - Sleepless in Seattle — Nora Ephron

Effective And Efficient Quotes

Any method of negotiation may be fairly judged by three criteria: It should produce a wise agreement if agreement is possible. It should be efficient. And it should improve or at least not damage the relationship between the parties. — William Ury

I support adjustments designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of regulation without sacrificing safety and soundness or undermining macroprudential goals. — Jerome Powell

Deep Learning is a form of human-assisted but mostly constraint-driven software development. It works because a particular smooth relaxation of program space allows a surprisingly efficient and effective local search. Something like that, my favorite definition. — Andrej Karpathy

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, Jr.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property. — Milton Friedman

We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep. — Matthew Walker

What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker

We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem — William McDonough

Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity. — Andrew Carnegie

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey

Productive And Efficient Quotes

Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too. Do not let the org chart get in the way of people working productively together. — Sam Altman

Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment. — Michael Ray

For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management. — Ginni Rometty

No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward. — Shawn Achor

Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation. — Murray Rothbard

Companies of One question their systems, processes, and structure to become more efficient. — Paul Jarvis

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings. — Sherwood Boehlert

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. — Lao Tzu

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

Economic Efficiency Quotes

Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust. - Pascal Lamy

Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust. — Pascal Lamy

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. — John Rawls

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems. — Janet Holmes a Court

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. — John Maynard Keynes

The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical. — E. F. Schumacher

A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting economic calculations and creating illusory profits, inflation will destroy this function. — Henry Hazlitt

Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality. — Mikhail Gorbachev

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously. — Amory Lovins

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government. — Kenneth Blackwell

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government. — Ken Blackwell

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More Being Efficient Quotes

Rendering yourself more efficient – either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder – won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all else being equal, the demands will increase to offset any benefits. — Oliver Burkeman

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. — Aldous Huxley

When time is a resource to be used, you start to feel pressure whether from external forces or from yourself, to use it well, and to berate yourself when you feel you’ve wasted it. When you're faced with too many demands, it’s easy to assume that the only answer must be to make better use of time by becoming more efficient, driving yourself harder or working for longer - as if you were a machine in the Industrial Revolution - instead of asking whether the demands themselves might be unreasonable. — Oliver Burkeman

The future success of the Marine Corps depends on two factors: first, an efficient performance of all duties to which its officers and men may be assigned; second, promptly bringing this efficiency to the attention of the proper officials of the government, and the American people. — John A. Lejeune

Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain. — Mark Parker

Basically with everything, I choose my criteria based on what can be easy. — Akira Toriyama

With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries. What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient. — Lee Kuan Yew

Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day. — Colin Powell

I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They're just not really that, yet. There's all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. Or a bunch of books. — Douglas Rushkoff

Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product. — Eugene Fama

I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information. — Eugene Fama

A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need. — Vicki Myron

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too. — Dean Young

The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be equally efficient in the three parts. — Jose Raul Capablanca

In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value. — Eugene Fama

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning. — Matthieu Ricard

What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors. — Kenichi Ohmae

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write! — H. G. Wells

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient. — James Surowiecki

The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn't behave as if markets are totally efficient. — Eugene Fama

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient. — Bruce Lee

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. — John C. Calhoun

Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company. — Carlos Slim

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

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. — Charlton Ogburn

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