Efficiency Quotes

"It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across."

- Rick Rubin

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker

"If you measure it, it will improve."

- Seth Godin

"Good customer service costs less than bad customer service."

- Sally Gronow

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."

- Henry Ford

"Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the customer gets out of it."

- Peter Drucker

"There’s no technology that can be ‘The Answer’ to a better customer experience in the absence of effective strategy and planning."

- Brad Cleveland

"The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works."

- Jeff Bezos

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."

- Bruce Lee

"Nothing is particularly hard if you break it down into small jobs."

- Henry Ford

"Juggling, multitasking, and other forms of “attention shifting” are highly inefficient. Simply, the brain works much faster and more accurately when attention is focused, for a stretch of time, on one thing at a time."

- Harvard Business Review

"The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity."

- Mitch Kapor

"Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head."

- Donald Knuth

"Time Is Money"

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"The Hedgehog Concept simplifies a complex world and makes decisions much easier."

- James C. Collins

"Data is king. Having the numbers on hand, and being able to easily communicate them, means you and your vendors can work together to optimize sales."

- Anne Enriquez

"It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in the retail sector is good for customers."

- N. R. Narayana Murthy

"One order management system, one database, one inventory. Without these you will never seem seamless to your customer."

- Andy Laudato

"By using good tactics, we lower the chance of resistance. By lowering the chance of resistance, we lower the chance of injury. By lowering the chance of injury, we lower the chance of liability."

- Andy Casavant

"Make every detail perfect, and limit the number of details to perfect."

- Jack Dorsey

"So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard."

- Caterina Fake

"The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works."

- Jeff Bezos

""When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.""

- Susan Heller

"The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures."

- Charles Babbage

"In the end, it’s the effort that matters. The rest is beyond your control."

- Maria Sharapova

"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."

- Edsger Dijkstra

"I work hard to make sure my department is as small and as ineffective as possible."

- Ron Swanson

"I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

- Bill Gates

"The fewer moving parts, the better."