Jeff Koons Quotes

I try to be as efficient as possible.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Due to my business commitments, I am faced with time constraints and have not been able to personally spend as much time as I would like on my causes. These efforts are handled by my team of several people.

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

I don't have assistants and things in the studio.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.

It's not about working harder; it's about working the system.

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.

I don't worship at the alter of efficiency.

I never do any brainwork that anyone else can do for me

There is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

That's part of being President. You can't focus on any one thing to the exclusion of all other things.

We need to have fewer meetings, not more—as we have to have time to put into effect some of the things we decide in these meetings.

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

There are three things that can be organized: time, space, and work. Note that, despite what many believe, you cannot organize people - you can only organize the work that people do.

The world of the small business owner is all about moving multiple items forward at once, and it's a fool's errand to believe one person can do it all when the shift comes from linear to parallel.

We only invest in businesses that reduce labor.