Efficient Quotes

• 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

  Morning, Night, Way To Live

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• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Perfectionism

  "Here’s How Elizabeth Gilbert (Bestselling Author of Eat, Pray, Love) Writes". Interview with Kelton Reid, www.copyblogger.com. December 12, 2013.

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• 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

  Business, Technology, Marketing

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Automation, Efficiency

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Fear, Atheism

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• Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Morning, Atheist

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.220, John Wiley & Sons

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• Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Fuel Efficiency, Advantage, Type

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

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• Once all come to know that by the concentration of the mind on one point, on one principle, on one desire, a power is radiated to that point with creative nature and demonstrative abilities, man will think more carefully, more constructively and more efficiently

  Harvey Spencer Lewis

  Inspirational, Power, Men

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Climbing Up, Top Management

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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• No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

  Murray Leinster

  Appreciation, Men, Doe

  Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.

  Paul Krugman

  Europe, Two, Oil

  "Stranded in Suburbia". www.nytimes.com. May 19, 2008.

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• In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Life, Fighting, Keys

  Twitter post from Mar 15, 2011

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• Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.

  Mark Skousen

  Technology, Simple, Banking

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• The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spirituality, Silent, Subtle

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.173, Vintage

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• All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

  Akio Morita

  Marketing, Needs, World

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• No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Leader, Belief, Initiative

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.192, Penguin

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• The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Reflection, People

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• Prayer is the noble supplication which we lift up to the throne of the Most High. It is the most efficient means to obtain from God the graces which we need.

  Pier Giorgio Frassati

  Prayer, Mean, Grace

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• I go to therapy once a week, that helps a lot. I have a really supportive family. I have two little kids, I'm married, I live close to my parents, my brother and his wife. I don't socialize a lot. I work and I have my kids, basically. I'm just, I would say, with all false modesty aside, I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

  Mark Duplass

  Brother, Kids, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

  Fred Wilson

  Space, Disease, Energy

  "Can the Crowd Be More Patient" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

  Upton Sinclair

  Country, Men, Two

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.227, First Avenue Editions

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• Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Stress, Spring

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

  Gregory Maguire

  Doubt, Energy, Conviction

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.232, Hachette UK

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• If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to smartphones and social networks, we can create new, more efficient markets for matching short-term renters with tenants.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smartphones, Political, Matching

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