Martha Stewart Quotes

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

… increased industrial efficiency makes it possible to procure the means of livelihood with less labor

In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must question why each step is performed. Typically, you will find that many steps exist in your work flow for no good reason. Often they are there by tradition or because formal procedure ordains it, and nothing practical ordains it.

Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.

Part of the process is always, 'Is there a better way?' We try to think through if there's something we can do better creatively or technically, or just is more efficient.

The shift in demand is toward partners that can improve productivity, and in part, that can be done by software.

I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.

Playing sports is a craft that has to be worked on and perfected just like anything else.

The good shots are good enough. It's really about managing those mistakes and making sure we have less of them.

When times are tough, we tend to outperform as margins increase.

While looking ahead, we know challenges remain, but we are encouraged by the strategies we have in place to improve our operational efficiencies and performance.

Automation is driving the decline of banal and repetitive tasks.

Obviously my strong suit is the 100 so that is what my main focus is on.

As a goalkeeper, you want to be the best, but you can only get better by playing games, making saves, and putting in man-of-the-match performances.

I'm proud when my dance numbers are spoken about for my expressions and steps.

I am working very hard at training to improve my efficiency, to be more clinical in front of goal.

The thing you're working so hard for are milliseconds. Saving a 10th of a second from 9.82 to 9.72 is huge. There are a lot of things I can fix from my technique standpoint and making sure I hold my form at the end of the race, to not slow down as much as I usually do.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

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

Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?