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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty read more
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is read more
A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character read more
We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency--clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought.
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in read more
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is read more
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
