(803 quotes found)
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
Stephen R. Covey
“Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”
Peter F. Drucker
“There are only 2 qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only 2 sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.”
George Bernard Shaw
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency”
Aldous Huxley
“Efficiency is intelligent laziness.”
David Dunham
“Laziness is the mother of efficiency”
Marian Propp
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”
“The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.”
Hannah Arendt
“It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent”
Sir Walter Scott