Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning.

I seek speed, clarity, and a practical approach in people I mingle and work with. I can't see myself working in films that stretch beyond maximum four months.

If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished.

When I came into the oil there was chaos. I brought order…. It was done the way it was because that was the way it had to be done.

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

Making more sense out of my data, my needs, my tasks - to me, that's the future of Office.

We have to learn to do more with less.

I do try and keep my scripts quite economical.

I tell my engineers that they should not overload me with information.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.

It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.

A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

...doing more with less.

My body shape was made to get into the perfect aerodynamic position.