Work Efficiency Quotes

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

I try not to schedule too many meetings. That's one of the things I learned in corporate America - that you can spend your days having meetings and never actually have time to work.

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

I just met your Chiefs of Staff. They really know what they are doing,

The thing is to get the work done.

If I bring my work home, it's wonderful.

Those going to Russia undertake to work their hardest and with the greatest efficiency and discipline exceeding those of capitalist standards, as otherwise Russia will not be able to outstrip capitalism or even catch up with it.

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.

No jewelry, particularly no rings, should be worn. Low heeled shoes will allow you to fill your daily stint with less fatigue. Wear goggles and a cap which completely covers your hair, and which has a visor broad enough to warn you when your head is getting too near any part of the machine. Slack suits, jumpers, and dresses should all be loose and comfortable, with no loose tabs, belts, or large buttons to catch in the machinery. Sleeves should either be short, or, if you prefer them long, tight-fitting. These suggestions stress the fact that a woman can still look extremely attractive in her working clothes, but that the object in going to work is to produce as much as possible. When you wear clothes about which you do not have to think, you will give more thought to the work you are doing.

The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well.

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

Knowledge applied is productivity.

I'm good at task management in a stressful environment.

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

I always feel like if you have a smaller crew, you can not only get to know the individual strengths of people more specifically, but then, you also give them a longer runway to be able to apply the knowledge that they have learned to subsequent work.