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
What is done well is done quickly enough. — Augustus
The faster you work, the more work you get done. — Andrew Tate
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation. — Ada Lovelace
Get maximum effect from minimum effort. — Bruce Lee
Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something. — Patrick Stump
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
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. — Kin Hubbard
Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Donald Knuth
Not just more time on task, but also better time on task. — Angela Duckworth
We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep. — Matthew Walker
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. — Wyatt Earp
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. — Bruce Lee
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. — John Ousterhout
Work can be done at a pace that suits my sanity rather than one that supports costly overhead. — Paul Jarvis
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
Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast. — Susan Wojcicki
Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. — Arthur Nielsen
Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. — Arthur C. Nielsen
The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner — Sayings
And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes. — Taiichi Ohno
Time Efficiency Image Quotes
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.
What Is Time Quotes
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?' — Marcus Aurelius
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do. — Stephen Curry
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. — Mark Twain
We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power. — Dolores Huerta
Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes. — Jodi Picoult
Business Efficiency Quotes
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
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates
Create flow. Monetize flow. Then add friction. — Alex Hormozi
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
Two big lessons: 1: Never use a token you created as collateral. 2: Don't borrow if you run a crypto business. Don't use capital 'efficiently.' Have a large reserve. Binance has never used BNB for collateral, and we have never taken on debt. — Changpeng Zhao
You want a business so simple an idiot could run it. Then, run it better than an idiot. — Alex Hormozi
Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy. — Sayings
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
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
Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices — Warren Buffett
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
Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture. — Apolo Ohno
Economic Efficiency Quotes
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
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
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
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
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.
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
Efficiency Quotes
How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful word—a little prayer word—will fill him with music and will lead him into victory. — Kenneth E. Hagin
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. — John J. Pershing
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
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization. — Ida Tarbell
The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner. — Jan Tschichold
Every baby moves with more ease and efficiency if allowed to do it at his own time and in his own way, without our trying to teach him. A child who has always been allowed to move freely develops not only an agile body but also good judgment about what he can and cannot do. — Magda Gerber
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force. — Helio Gracie
You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life. — Sivananda
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
Productivity And Efficiency 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
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
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.
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
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
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
Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created. — Myron Scholes
Time Management Quotes
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. — Mother Teresa
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back. — Harvey Mackay
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. — Peter Drucker
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. — Stephen Covey
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. — Alfred Armand Montapert
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. — Hans Selye
Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous. — Mark Cane
Time tells you what you didn’t accomplish. Focus turns off the clock and directs all your energy to the result. — Tim Grover
Time confetti is an enemy of both energy and of excellence. If we want to find flow we need better boundaries. — Adam Grant
Operational Efficiency Quotes
Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like. — William O. Douglas
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason? — Simon Sinek
All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development. — A. E. Waite
We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest level...anxiety is a cognitive interpretation of that physical response. — John Eliot
The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects. — Rosa DeLauro
Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources. — Julian Baggini
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient. — Sam Walton
If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine. — W. Edwards Deming
During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Efficient Work Quotes
Search for a better, cheaper, more efficient method based on technology; use trial and error to identify what works, and then find the best people to implement the plan of action. — Jared Kushner
The maximum leverage would mean that you would have people working for you. — Naval Ravikant
The fastest and most efficient means of establishing a quick working relationship is to acknowledge the negative and diffuse it. — Chris Voss
I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient. — Mike Figgis
If it’s work, do it fast. If it’s food, eat it little by little. — Filipino Proverbs
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
The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education. — Maria Montessori
I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better. — Xi Jinping
Work efficiently during office hours and leave on time. Give the required time to your family, friends & have proper rest. Value has a value only if its value is valued. — Brian Dyson
If you can outsource something or not do something for less than your hourly rate, outsource it or don’t do it. — Naval Ravikant
Catch fish with one hand at the same time. — Thai Proverbs
As entrepreneurs, we already know our most valuable asset is time, but not every entrepreneur knows how to properly use that time. — Lewis Howes
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
One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow. — American Proverbs
Quickly fetch the water during the rising tide. — Thai Proverbs
A stitch in time saves nine. — English Proverbs
When the bait’s worth more than the fish, it’s time to stop fishing. — American Proverbs
We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power. — Randal Marlin
Bitcoin is the most efficient system in the history of mankind for channeling energy through time and space. — Michael Saylor
Measure seven times, cut once. — Russian Proverbs
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
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
Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention. — Terence Conran
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. — Henry Charles Carey
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body - and vice versa. — Denise Austin
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3% — Donald Knuth
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
We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence. — M. Scott Peck
The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: 'What is a sunrise for? What are caresses for? What is the smell of coffee for?' — Jorge Valdano
Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day. — Edward Bach
The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time? — Gerald R. Ford
In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever. — Bruce Nauman
From the time I first understood economic principles, I was always concerned also that any system be operated on an efficient basis, which meant decentralization because knowledge is not concentrated anywhere. It's based on motivation, and so these are the advantages of, say, the cautious case for capitalism, that the market system is efficient. — Kenneth Arrow
Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people. — Stephen Covey
If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste. — Marc Andreessen
During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person. — Brian Tracy
Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer. — Mark Hart
I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that. — James Altucher
Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all. — Gore Vidal
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
The state owned monopolies are among the greatest millstones round the neck of the economy. Liberals must stress at all times the virtues of the market, not only for efficiency but to enable the widest possible choice. Much of what Mrs Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph say and do is in the mainstream of liberal philosophy. — Jo Grimond
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