Efficiency Quotes

"Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution."

Brian Tracy

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

Peter Drucker

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."

Peter Drucker

"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."

Northrop Frye

"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done."

Linus Torvalds

“I've spoken about my frustration with how the language of efficiency and waste and fraud has become coded as if they are of the right, when they should be at the core of any progressive politics.”

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

Peter Drucker

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

Bill Gates

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”

Peter Drucker

“In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.”