Gordon Bell Quotes

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.

Big teams are absolutely vital if you want to achieve certain results when you're working on larger scales, both in terms of physical size and productive quantities.

The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

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

It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job.

We have to have workers that will produce more and will stop work when it is not needed.

I've certainly seen R&D groups, typically funded by large corporations, where they bring together a lot of smart people and nothing happens. And the reason nothing happens is that they don't have a clear goal.

I've got loads of ideas swimming round, and I've even organised them in a nice folder on me computer.

I'm a very big believer that the primary focus for any organization at any point in time should always be smarter, better, faster.

Engineers are often defined by their output.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

System: Save yourself time, energy and money.

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

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.

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

It's not that much of a difference. Basically, your job is the same as a film director. It's a triangle between creativity, money, and time. But they don't really change. You're ultimately trying to get the most creativity and time with the money that you have.

Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.

Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

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

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.