Efficiency Quotes

“The trade-off between efficiency and resiliency is a trade-off between fragile and antifragile.”
― Roger spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“Waste is antithetical to efficiency. You cannot have one while also having the other. In maximizing one, the other will definitely be minimized. In minimizing one, the other will definitely be maximized.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Profits are determined by productivity; by value added and by efficiencies and effectiveness.”
― Hendrith Smith

“In terms of biological systems, efficiency is a matter of life or death. And the same is true in terms of business systems.”
― Hendrith Smith

“One reason nature is efficient is because there is no waste. Everything produced creates value for others and is consumed by others on the basis of value. What one life may discard as not valuable is consumed by another life because of its valuable. And all things produced and consumed are continually upcycled, becoming more valuable each cycle. Perhaps it’s because nature has a capital-centric view of things; everything in nature is capital and produces capital which to varying degrees provides value to all other things in nature. Imagine if economies worked like this. Imagine if investment portfolios worked like this. Imagine if businesses worked like this. What a beautiful world it would be.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“One way to improve efficiency is to streamline processes according to schedules, required inputs and expected outputs.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Efficiency is as important to the management of a municipality as it is to the management of a business.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“I've known a lot of
hummingbirds. I used to
be one too. But then
I grew.

An ostrich now,
I listen. I wait.
Grounded (but quick
when I need to be).

I've still got
that sprint in me.”
― Jenny Noble Anderson

“Nature ensures efficiency through self-sustaining systems. Businesses should do the same.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“When things are orderly, it reduces the possibility of waste. When things are orderly, it maximizes efficiency. Eliminating waste and maximizing efficiency both lend themselves to profit.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“Nature's ability to harness energy and resources teaches us about the importance of efficient systems and processes.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Clutter is a state of mind when we miss simplicity and entangle ourselves in complexities.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“In the shadow of busyness, multitasking costs us our creativity, productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, and relationships.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“We need a cultural shift towards looking at multitasking as an act of foolishness.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Life is as simple as finding a lost TV remote.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Every standardized institution, by definition and design, is focused on efficiency above all else, and generic motives and universal motives are efficient ways of moving the needle—on average, at least. But they’re horrible for your own fulfillment. Not only do standardized views of motivation ignore everything that is important about who you are, but by incessantly focusing all of our attention on a small set of institutionally ordained motives, the Standardization Covenant constrains our thinking about what a personal motive can even be.
Fortunately, dark horses reveal the hidden truth about motivation. ... The lives of dark horses demonstrate the remarkable specificity of micro-motives.”
― Todd Rose, Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment

“...these ten minutes had only been the opening movements in a symphony of pain that Azriel could conduct with brutal efficiency.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Each of us is unique but we are really not that different as we think (though our ego tells us we are so special). Which means that there are a ton of common career issues and that should be a huge relief. Because then you don’t need to break your head to find solutions since someone has already been through different versions of Heaven and Hell and picked up a few valuable tips along the way.”
― Binod Shankar, Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager

“By breaking our application into individual, independently deployable processes, we open up a host of mechanisms to improve the robustness of our applications. By using microservices, we are able to implement a more robust architecture, because functionality is decomposed, that is, an impact in one area of functionality may not bring down the whole system, we also can focus our time and energy on those parts of the application that most require robustness, ensuring critical parts of our system remain operational.”
― Sam Newman, Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

“Bronva isn't just about privacy; it's about performance too. Protected by SSL, our search engine delivers instant, superior results. It's a realization that privacy and efficiency can coexist. With Bronva, users can search swiftly, securely, and without compromise.”
― James William Steven Parker

“Якби ми спробували усунути шум в освіті, нам довелося б витратити багато коштів. Оцінювання учнів з боку вчителів зашумлене, але не можна посадити п’ять педагогів оцінювати одну учнівську роботу.”
― Деніел Канеман, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

“Life is a story waiting to be read, each chapter written with the ink of experience.”
― Umesha Chathurangi Handapangoda, Mastering Time: Strategies for Productivity and Success

“The further basic science moves from meandering exploration toward efficiency, he believes, the less chance it will have of solving humanity's greatest challenges.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“AI's ambition: 'Let's automate tasks.'
ML's efficiency: 'Let's optimize outcomes.'
GenAI's confidence: 'Let's automate success!”
― Brahmanand Savanth

“Organizations that don't take the initiative to design their organizational culture professionally are leaving their goals to chance.

How would one otherwise unify their team's goals with the mission and vision of the organization? Culture can build or break organizations no matter
how small or large.”
― Krishna Sagar Rao

“Elevation into leadership roles must be driven from inside and from the bottom up, especially where a strong culture is professionally designed and implemented.

In organizations where culture is by default & ad-hoc, one doesn't need to care much.”
― Krishna Sagar Rao

“Are you a ‘Listening Organization?’

Organizations that execute constant feedback loops from customers, vendors, and employees will have a competitive advantage in staying agile and evolving.

Building systems to ensure that your firm is empathetic and open-minded is critical to your survival and growth.”
― Krishna Sagar Rao

“Organizational culture is the most underrated management initiative in all sizes of companies.

The lack of a professionally designed Organizational Culture establishes that promoters of the company lack the basic understanding of regulating human behavior for quantifiable positive outcomes & profits.”
― Krishna Sagar Rao

“TradeCast revolutionizes the trading experience with seamless integration, empowering investors to trade smarter and faster.”
― Sohaib CATALYST

“[Agribusiness Conglomerates'] growth relies on ripping down circuit breaking, back-up systems, and modularity, and streamlining a system whose major nodes are already too big and whose links are already too strong. It's an accelerating cycle that inexorably destabilizes the system.”
― George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet