Alvin Toffler Quotes

When you’re dealing with a commodity, high productivity means that nobody makes any money.

A lot can be accomplished with current resources if we don't stand around wringing our hands because of lack of funding or complex requirements.

Every business has to figure out how to make itself more efficient. They've got to use technology. They've got to use the Internet, things like that. We can do the same thing with our state colleges.

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

To make three guineas do the work of five.

... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to say they are wasted.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.

The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.