Efficiency Quotes

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

Managers are responsible for establishing order and predictability, systems and routines; leaders are responsible for stirring people up, provoking, questioning and inspiring. Managers are concerned with structures and their focus is on operations. Leaders, on the other hand, base their activity on people rather than structures – they typically work on people’s values, beliefs and ideas to effect change by raising standards and defining future goals. The essential difference is that leadership involves risk.

What is this mess? An empty desk is an efficient desk.

See the job. Do the job. Stay out of the misery.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.