Efficiency Quotes

“If you want to have a profitable business, you need to have an efficient business.”
― Hendrith Smith

“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. Far from getting things done, you’ll be creating new things to do.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“In nature, waste does not exist. There is only production and consumption; there is only creation and utilization. Everything that's produced is efficiently consumed. Everything that's created is efficiently utilized. And this cyclicality results in growth and in profit. The same should be true of each business, and the same should be true of an economy.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“In order for a business to scale, it has to improve efficiencies. Efficiency is a prerequisite for sustainable scaling.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Whereas gross revenue speaks more to a businesses pricing power and scale, net income speaks more to it's efficiency and operations.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Our leaders keep saying phrases like, “Let the market decide.” or “The market will get to the efficient outcome.” Really? The market is a very flawed institution that does not deserve the nearly religious kind of endorsement of it that our leaders are eager to provide over and over again.”
― Richard D. Wolff, The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself

“One way businesses become more efficient is when technology allows employees to simplify tasks.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“At some point, we reach maximum efficiency and hard work is replaced with smart work. But until then, you better work like crazy. Especially in the beginning, your business needs you to work like crazy.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Wealth is the accumulated results of productivity.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“It’s important to have an efficient business. But it’s also just as important to have an effective business. Efficiency and effectiveness should be an inseparable pair.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Redundancy is blessed, but efficiency is divine.”
― david brin

“If you want to make a big difference in this world, you must learn to prioritize and delegate efficiently. Not everything you can do is worth doing. Know this, enjoy peace!”
― Olawale Daniel, 10 Ways to Sponsor More Downlines in Your Network Marketing Business

“Transportation at its best facilitates the efficient flow of resources, the efficient movement of people, and the efficient utilization of time. Thats why we do what we do at Mayflower-Plymouth. It’t just about cars and bicycles. Its about efficiency. Its about the improvement of the human experience. And ultimately its about the evolution of our planetary civilization.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Improving efficiency is a key to business evolution. For the business to evolve, the business will need to improve efficiencies, among other things.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Effectiveness is about asking the questions, what do we want our business to be great at? And what is the best way to achieve the results we desire?”
― Hendrith Smith

“If a majestic tree has to fall, may it be so a family or two has a place to eat.

Resources are precious.”
― Monaristw

“Improvement, to be found in all things.”
― Alogaristw

“if I do everything perfectly and work my ass off, then I'll be ok.
That kind of thing, in the end, limits your ability to enjoy life; and it doesn't get the best out of you, it really doesn't”
― Hugh Jackman

“The efficiency of faith is seen in its ability to move mountains.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes

“WMDs, by contrast, tend to favor efficiency. By their very nature, they feed on data that can be measured and counted. But fairness is squishy and hard to quantify. It is a concept. And computers, for all of their advances in language and logic, still struggle mightily with concepts.”
― Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

“We are living in a time with almost infinite resources. If the amount of water in a glass marks human efficiency, how empty is the glass?”
― Monaristw

“If a majestic tree has to fall, may it be so a family or two has a place to eat.

Precious are resources.”
― Monaristw

“If the ants were our size they would replace land with ocean, and ocean with land.

Grasshopper. Ant.”
― Monaristw

“The ledger’s double-entry pages and the neat grid of the invoice gave purposeful shape to the story they told. Through their graphic simplicity and economy, invoices and ledgers effaced the personal histories that fueled the slaving economy. Containing only what could fit within the clean lines of their columns and rows, they reduced an enormous system of traffic in human commodities to a concise chronicle of quantitative ‘facts.’ Thus, Mary Poove writes, ‘like the closet, the conventions of double-entry bookkeeping were intended to manage or contain excess.’ Instruments such as these did their work, then, while concealing the messiness of history, erasing from view the politics that underlay the neat account keeping.

The slave traders (and much of the modern economic literature on the slave trade) regarded the slave ship’s need for volume as a self-evident ‘fact’ of economic rationalization: the Board of Trade’s reports, the balance pursued in the Royal African Company’s double-entry ledgers, the calculations that determined how many captive bodies a ship could ‘conveniently stow,’ the simple equation by which an agent at the company’s factory at Whydah promised ‘to Complie with delivering in every ten days 100 Negroes.’ But the perceptions of the African captives themselves differed from the slave trader’s economies of scale and rationalized efficiency of production. What appears in the European quantitative account as a seamless expansion in the volume of slave exports—evidence of the natural workings of the market—took the form of violent rifts in the political geography of the Gold Coast. People for whom the Atlantic market had been a distant and hazy presence with little direct consequence for their lives now found themselves swept up in wars and siphoned into a type of captivity without precedent.”
― Stephanie E. Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora

“The harsh demographic regime of the region furthermore meant that over the course of a typical decade planters would have to buy total numbers of new slaves equivalent to 30 percent of those present at the decade’s beginning simply to prevent their slave populations from decreasing. In Virginia, the slave population experienced almost no natural increase in the first decade of the eighteenth century, and conditions were no better in the Carolina lowcountry.

The truth was that West Indian slave masters soon gave up trying to keep their Negroes alive long enough to breed up a new generation and instead routinely bought replacement slaves year in and year out. Survivors of the slave ship thus drew future migrants into saltwater slavery by the engine of their labor. Once converted into sugar (or tobacco or rice or any of the other staple commodities), the labor of those already in saltwater slavery cycled back to African shores to pull still more captives into circulation, thus ‘buying’ more bodies to sustain the chain of captive migrants that bound Africa to the Americas.”
― Stephanie E. Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora

“Being inefficient is not a compulsion, it is a conscious choice.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Time is currency. Be careful how you spend it.”
― Byron L. Reeder, It's Cool to Be Kosher: A Kosher Foods Word Search Book for Kids and Adults

“The practice of philosophy is often a tenacious effort in self-treatment and, to be honest, not always as efficacious as we would have wished it to be.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“When you’re too busy even to write the eulogy for your free time, you might find resuscitating your schedule is as easy as multitasking more effectively or trying a new study technique.”
― Joel B. Randall, Study, Sleep, Repeat: 130 Tips to Schedule Your College Life

“Over the years, I’ve gotten better and better at returning from mental and physical exhaustion…The fighter who can recover in the thirty seconds between rounds…will have a huge advantage over the guy who is still huffing and puffing, mentally or physically, from the last battle.”
― Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence