Efficiency Quotes

“A good vision will not just give your employees much-needed direction but also much-valued inspiration to do their work efficiently.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Training looks like a financial loss to many but when your employees learn something new and implement the same for your company, they improve efficiency of your business process which gives you a competitive edge.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk. Why should the hen set all day? She can lay but one egg, and besides she will not have picked up materials for a new one. Those who work much do not work hard.”
― Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861

“...certain business leaders mistakenly believe that time on-task equates with task completion and productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was untrue. It is a misguided fallacy, and an expensive one, too.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“I read these biographies all the time about these successful people and one of the patterns that I've discovered, and what I've discovered in myself and all of my friends who have become very successful, has been the fact that they say "Yes" to a lot of commitments.

If you just have this one goal, then that one thing may get shoved under the rug and procrastinated on. But if you say yes to a lot of things; if you almost overcommit, then you probably won't get all of the things you've committed to complete. But you'll get a good portion of them. The 80% that you DO get done will still be more than that one person who said no to a lot of things. The busiest people get the most things done.”
― David Tian Ph.D

“Difference between a professional and amateur is like a difference between your dominant hand and non-dominant hand.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“It is a funny paradox of design: utility breeds beauty. There is elegance in efficiency, a visual pleasure in things that just barely work.”
― Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings

“To argue a moral position convincingly these days requires that one speak to (and not depart from) people's love of material well-being, their fascination with efficiency, or their fear of death.”
― Langdon Winner, The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology

“Consider your time valuable and manage it effectively and efficiently.
Don’t waste it. Produce high-quality products that will inspire others.
Make it a point of duty to add value to your work during the progress.
Don’t settle to less; make it your best, strive to win the test!”
― Joseph S. Spence Sr.

“Professionalism is not about what work you do, it is about how well you do the work.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The work which can be done by your subordinates should be delegated, even if you like doing the work yourself. You must rather focus only on those tasks that can be done by you alone. If you still have some time left, focus on future planning and improving the efficiency of the organisation.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“Simplicity is efficient.”
― Adrienne Posey

“Minutes may seem as worthless as pennies until you add them up. Neither should be wasted.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Good fortune and efficiency are closely related concepts. They help you get what you want more quickly and easily than you would through effort alone.”
― Suh Yoon Lee, The Having: The Secret Art of Feeling and Growing Rich

“Efficiency is to do what is effective, achieve high customer satisfaction with less operating cost, and improve employee productivity with good teamwork.”
― Pearl Zhu, Quality Master

“More pervasive and corrosive are the nearly invisible forms of time denial that are built into the very infrastructure of our society. For example, in the logic of economics, in which labor productivity must always increase to justify higher wages, professions centered on tasks that simply take time - education, nursing, or art performance - constitute a problem because they cannot be made significantly more efficient.”
― Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

“Success is all about fine tuning our own original style following the process of identification and elimination of ineffective stuff and emphasizing the uniqueness in our originality.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows

“The problem was that Citra was very bad at doing things half-fast.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Wherever there is human intervention, there is subjective prejudice. Systems implementation is the only solution for efficiency.”
― Krishna Saagar Rao

“Don’t let the urgent crowd out the important.”
― Henry Gindt

“Losers read, winners skim.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Wenn wir von Effizienz und Produktivität besessen sind, ist es schwierig, den wahren Wert der Bildung und der Gesundheitspflege zu erkennen. Daher sehen viele Politiker und Steuerzahler nur die Kosten. Sie begreifen nicht, dass ein Land umso mehr für Lehrer und Ärzte ausgeben sollte, je reicher es wird.”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

“… a better objective for support units would be the following: to effectively fulfill their administrative duties with as small an impact as possible on the specialists’ main work obligations. If taken seriously this metric might mean a given support unit needs to make its own work less efficient to better serve the organization.”
― Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

“Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, which was efficient but also a highly controlling device. There was a problem with the assembly line. It’s so onerous that people dropped out. They couldn’t stand it. They had to hire almost a thousand workers to see if they could get one hundred to stay on.”
― Noam Chomsky, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

“Having helps you find the best point of application for yourself. It’s a system that lets you achieve maximum efficiency with minimum effort.”
― Suh Yoon Lee, The Having: The Secret Art of Feeling and Growing Rich

“Organizational Procurement is a tight balancing act between “cost and quality” on one side and “time and compliance” on the other side, yet a seasoned procurement specialist keeps it evenly balanced.”
― Victor Manan Nyambala

“You will be exceptional only few times, but you can be excellent all the times.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“When welfare is discussed in microeconomics textbooks, it is only in the domain of economic exchange in markets. The discussion in such places sets total welfare maximization as the virtuous end or criterion. In first-degree price discrimination adopted by a monopolist, there is no welfare loss. However, there is no consumer surplus either despite having optimal efficiency. Economics is neutral between desirable or undesirable equilibrium from the point of view of equity.”
― Salman Ahmed Shaikh, Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World

“You can't forget to do what you already did—if you can, do it now.”
― Taiki Matsuura

“The secret of getting things done quickly is not to hurry.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Making a Killing