Buffy Sainte-Marie Quotes

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

We don't have time as a nation to spend all of what we do blocking.

Practice quality, and you get better at quality. But quality takes time, so by working solely on quality, you end up losing something else that's important - speed.

I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

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

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

It's not about working harder; it's about working the system.

We need to have fewer meetings, not more—as we have to have time to put into effect some of the things we decide in these meetings.

I'm trying to keep my days very efficient, and I keep my set really tight. Every single corner is active, and everybody gets to thrive in the job that they do. I don't waste people's time.

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

Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directing. I prefer to have five minutes' work for the crew - and keep the three hours to myself for thought.

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.

Making everything more efficient should make everybody happier.

Don't equate activity with efficiency.

Your greatest resource is your time.

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.