Efficiency Quotes

"To be successful at sea we must keep things simple."

- Pete Culler

"Success isn’t defined by the final score, but the effort you put forth."

- Hank Aaron

"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."

- Warren Buffett

"Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it."

- Tim Ferriss

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"

- John Wooden

"Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business."

- Carlos Slim

"To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste."

- Eliyahu M. Goldratt

"It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens."

- Jillian Michaels

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

- Rick Rubin

"Time spent on hiring is time well spent."

- Robert Half

"When it comes down to it, safety is a priority when it comes to a warehouse – after safety, you can think about efficiency. The last thing you want to do is put your warehouse workers in danger – just to boost your profit margins. A safe warehouse is an efficient warehouse."

- Business First Family Organization

"It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use."

- Sam Abell

"Off the shelf Safety Systems – if you want a good dust collector, buy a vacuum cleaner."

- Dave Collins

"When it comes down to it, safety is a priority in a warehouse – after safety, you can think about efficiency. The last thing you want to do is put your warehouse workers in danger – to boost your profit margins. A safe warehouse is an efficient warehouse."

- Business First Family Organization

"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

- Blaise Pascal

"Don’t take shortcuts. They take too long."

- Sonia Simone

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

- Thomas Jefferson

"So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads."

- Dr. Seuss

"Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress..."

- Nick Hornby

""For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.""

- Benjamin Franklin

"Being organized is not about being company-ready 24/7. It’s about being able to find what you need and restore order quickly."

- Monika Kristofferson

"If you have no systems, you have to reinvent your housekeeping or debate what to do first every time you do it, and the required mental effort is a major obstacle, especially when you are tired. But a tired working person is often able to do things that are routine and habitual."

- Cheryl Mendelson

"Never work hard when you can work smart"

- Bandit Heeler

"There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

"It costs less to be safe every day than to make one careless mistake along the way."

"Work Smart Work Safe."

"Work smarter, not harder, and hang in there."

- Unknown

"Don’t find yourself cleaning up the same mess twice."

"Success does not lie in results but in efforts, being the best is not so important, doing the best is all that matters."