Efficiency Quotes

“One competent go-getter is worth One Hundred incompetent do-nothings. - Kailin Gow, On Hiring a Winning Team”
― Kailin Gow

“If you make a habit out of it, it's nothing. The important thing is to make sure that you don't collect too much stuff. I keep throwing out all the extra stuff. If you do that, cleaning up isn't hard at all. As long as you have thirty minutes, you can get it done. One week is ten thousand eighty minutes, so if you just put in some effort for thirty minutes, you can spend about ten thousand minutes in comfort. But if you don't put in the thirty minutes of effort, you'll have to spend ten thousand minutes in discomfort.”
― Keigo Higashino

“I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn’t look so good. But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts.
And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”
― Steve Jobs

“...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

“Efficiency, n. The speed and frictionlessness with which money moves from the poor to the rich.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140

“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.

“Governments don't have to be efficient, the less efficient they are, the more money they take from the citizens.”
― Rick Delmonico

“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

“A prosperous and sustainable future necessarily demands responsible and efficient management of our affairs: responsible co-creation.”
― Joseph Rain, The Unfinished Book About Who We Are

“I don't have enough time. I am being pulled in too many directions. Someone or something is stealing my time. Whether you complain that you are overworked and overextended or you believe that other people, obligations, or competing loyalties are forcing you to postpone or cancel your own aspirations or dreams, you're basically saying one thing: you are inefficient. Yes, it's your fault. It's bullshit and you can change that.”
― Jon Taffer, Don't Bullsh*t Yourself!: Crush the Excuses That Are Holding You Back

“Real rich people know how to bring in more money with the same amount of effort. It’s a matter of efficiency.”
― Suh Yoon Lee, The Having: The Secret Art of Feeling and Growing Rich

“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

“If the successor does better than the ancestor world remembers the successor, like the maker of a car, is still remembered but not the maker of a bullock cart.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“In the materialistic perspective described so far, interpersonal relations are seriously impoverished. The first to be harmed are women, children, the sick or suffering, and the elderly. The criterion of personal dignity-which demands respect, generosity and service-is replaced by the criterion of efficiency, functionality and usefulness: others are considered not for what they "are", but for what they "have, do and produce". This is the supremacy of the strong over the weak.”
― John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae: The Gospel of Life

“Essentialism is not abotu how to get more things done; it's about how to get the right things done. It doesn't mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“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