Mark Victor Hansen Quotes

...doing more with less.

We have to learn to do more with less.

If you see something that doesn't make sense, ask. Change it. Think about dollars, think about your soldiers' time, think about efficiency.

I try to be as efficient as possible because in my process, I think that actually helps the work. I like having the pressure of time and money and really trying to stick to the parameters we've been given.

What we need is to use what we have.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

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

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

You’re putting in the same number of hours a week but we are just repackaging it more efficiently.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

You cannot grow more hours in the day. However, you can make better use of those hours.

I want to be efficient and effective in everything I do.

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.

Always throw your clubs ahead of you. That way you don't have to waste energy going back to pick them up.

Your greatest resource is your time.

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

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

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.