Top 54 Efficiency Quotes

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Being able to do everything you need to do quickly and correctly is a great feeling. However, being efficient is not always the easiest things. To help inspire you, check out the top 54 efficiency quotes.

#54 – 50. Efficiency Quotes

54. Efficiency and focus are the keys to success. – Robert Crais

53. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. – Bruce Lee

52. Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast. – Peter Drucker

51. Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient. – H. Ross Perot

50. The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. – Thomas Sowell

#49 – 40. Efficiency Quotes

49. The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained. – Alexis Carrel

48. Efficiency is anything that scores. – Bruce Lee

47. No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. – Warren Buffett

46. A sense of the value of time – that is, of the best way to divide one’s time into one’s various activities – is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. – Arnold Bennett

45. The efficiency of most workers is beyond the control of the management and depends more than has been supposed upon the willingness of men to do their best. – Sumner Slichter

44. Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition. – Henry Mintzberg

43. Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit. – Jawaharlal Nehru

42. Simplicity is the soul of Efficiency. – Austin Freeman

41. You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively. – Brian Tracy

40. It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau

#39 – 30. Efficiency Quotes

39. I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency. – Theresa May

38. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. – Lin Yutang

37. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. – Peter Drucker

36. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better. – Russell L. Ackoff

35. You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there. – George Burns

34. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. – Peter Drucker

33. Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success. – John C. Maxwell

32. Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice. – Kim Stanley Robinson

31. Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things. – Peter Drucker

30. The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people. – Woodrow Wilson

#29 – 20. Efficiency Quotes

29. The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. – Hannah Arendt

28. Once we’ve made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness. – John Cleese

27. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. – Stephen Covey

26. Efficiency was a higher priority than imagination. – Adam Christopher

25. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed, we are going somewhere. – Michael Korda

24. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. – Bill Gates

23. You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things. – Stephen Covey

22. Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. – Jawaharlal Nehru

21. True efficiency is taking some time to be fully first thing in the morning. Rushing isn’t always efficient. – Waylon H. Lewis

20. Conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience. – Kelly Miller

#19 – 10. Efficiency Quotes

19. If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.― Abraham Lincoln

18. While there is no correct way to make a work of art, there are efficient means and tried and true practices. One should not be ignorant of these guidelines. Painting is an old craft, and there is no need to reinvent the wheel. – Peter William Brown

17. Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

16. Our work activities are perhaps most interesting when the element of competition is present. – Ralph Alfred Habas

15. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe. – Timothy Ferriss

14. The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. – Herbert N. Casson

13. The efficient management of organizations is key to generating wealth, for the development of a country, for the preservation of natural resources and the enhancement of the human being. – Vinicius Montgomery

12. The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. – Benjamin Jowett

11. So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities. – Bill Vaughan

10. The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you’re out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form. – A.J. Darkholme

#9 – 1. Efficiency Quotes

9. Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. – Peter Drucker

8. Don’t equate activity with efficiency. – Harvey Mackay

7. The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product. – Peter Drucker

6. The laziest people find the most efficient way to do things, they don’t just do nothing, because then they have to end up being bothered into doing things all the time anyway. – Shikamaru

5. There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas A. Edison

4. Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. – Robert A. Heinlein

3. Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. – Petronius Arbiter

2. Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. Efficiency is intelligent laziness. – David Dunham

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