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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.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Cheating is often more efficient.
Cheating is often more efficient.
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.
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.
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to read more
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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.
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.
