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Efficient is maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort

• Efficient: Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense. Oxford Dictionary
• Efficient: Capable of producing desired results without wasting materials, time, or energy.  Merriam Webster
• Efficient: Working or operating quickly and effectively in an organized way. Cambridge Dictionary
• There can be economy only where there is efficiency. Benjamin Disraeli
• Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort—expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals. Dan Millman
• My goal is to do the most with the least—get the maximum output with the minimum input. Jarod Kintz
• Effectiveness, Productivity,  Effortlessness,  Laziness,  Energy management

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Efficiency is intelligent laziness

• 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. Walter P. Chrysler
• Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. Robert A. Heinlein
• Efficiency is intelligent laziness. David Dunham
• Laziness is the mother of efficiency. Marian Propp
• Intelligence,  Laziness

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Efficiency creates ease

• The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. Henry David Thoreau

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Efficiency leaves more time to enjoy life

• The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it. Michael Leboeuf
• Enjoyment, Life is meant to be enjoyed

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To be efficient, make optimum use of what you have

• Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. Jawaharlal Nehru

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To be efficient, be organised but don’t overdo it

• Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. Petronius Arbiter
• Getting organised

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To be efficient, work smart

• The combination of hard work and smart work is efficient work. Robert Half

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To be efficient, do one thing at a time

• The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. Samuel Smiles
• Focus

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To be efficient, focus on just a few major goal

• By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed, we are going somewhere. Michael Korda
• Goal setting

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To be efficient, value time and use it effectively

• You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively. Brian Tracy
• 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. Arnold Bennett
• Time management, Time

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To be efficient, manage your energy

• The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. Tony Robbins
• Energy management

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To be efficient, plan and review your day

• The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained. Alexis Carrel
• Planning, Plan your week and day

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To be efficient, focus your efforts on what you enjoy and are good at

• All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. Plato
• Do what you love,  Passion,  Enthusiasm

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To be efficient, be decisive

• Once we’ve made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness. John Cleese
• Decision making

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To be efficient, capitalise on technology – but be aware it can have the opposite effect

• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Leonard Huxley
• Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Jacques Ellul
• 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
• Technology

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To be efficient, eliminate or systemize all you can

• Don’t manage what you can systemize or, better yet, eliminate. Jeff Davidson
• Eliminate what is not important

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To be efficient, make time for prayer

• Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power. Norman Vincent Peale
• Prayer

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To make efficient use of your brain, get to know yourself

• Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Bernard Baruch
• Self-knowledge

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To be efficient, think for yourself

• The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself. Charles W. Eliot

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To be efficient, keep your writing concise and clear

• Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. Ezra Pound
• Writing,  Brevity

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To be efficient, avoid complexity

• Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. Edward de Bono
• Complexity,  Simplicity,  Confusion

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Don’t let your efficiency stop you from being human

• I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough. Felix Frankfurter
• It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. Elbert Hubbard
• The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. Aldous Huxley

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Don’t let your striving for efficiency blind you to the beauty of the present moment

• When we invest our work with judgment and impatience, always striving for speed and efficiency, we lose the capacity to appreciate the six million quiet moments that may bring us peace, beauty, or joy. As we seek salvation through our frantic productivity and accomplishments, we squander the teachings that may be present in this very moment, in the richness of this particular breath. Brother Steindhl- Rast
• Beauty, Live in the moment

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Don’t let your quest for efficiency blind your morals and ideals

• Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism is not uncommon; it is the combination that is necessary, and that combination is rare. Theodore Roosevelt
• Education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Principles,  Ideals, Morality

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Efficiency is doing things right, effectiveness is doing the right things

• Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker
• While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people. Stephen Covey
• We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind. Stephen Covey
• Don’t equate activity with efficiency. Harvey Mackay
• Effectiveness

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Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all

• Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast. Peter Drucker
• Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Stephen Covey
• Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. Peter F. Drucker
• The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better. Russell L. Ackoff
• Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe. Timothy Ferriss
• Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Lin Yutang

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We need to make more efficient use of natural resources

• We assume that everything’s becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that’s true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. Paul Hawken
• Waste,  Care for the environment

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Thoughts on efficient things

• The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. Robert C. Peale
• The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. Northrop Frye
• Whenever you have efficient government, you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman
• Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. Henry Ward Beecher

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• Any bureaucracy reorganized to enhance efficiency is immediately indistinguishable from its predecessor.  Soper’s Law
• Efficiency Expert: A man smart enough to tell you how to run your business and too smart to start his own.
• Efficiency Expert: A man who knows less about your business than you do and gets paid more for telling you how to run it than you could
• Efficiency is a highly developed form of laziness.
• Efficiency: The knack of getting somebody to do a job you don’t like.
• For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. Eric Ambler
• I’m not small, I’m space-efficient. Rachael Leigh
• You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there. George Burns
• Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately; I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.  Russell Baker
• Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.  Bill Vaughn
• Never waste any time you can spend sleeping. Frank H. Knight
• Nothing makes steak as efficiently as a cow.  Solomon Short
• The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency. Eugene McCarthy
• Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode. Don Roff
• Overdoing things is harmful in all cases even when it comes to efficiency.  Bunuel’s Law
• Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don’t let anyone know it. Ric Ocasek
• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.  Aldous Huxley
• The efficiency of a committee meeting is inversely proportional to the number of participants and the time spent on deliberations.  Old and Kahn’s Law
• The most efficient labor-saving device is still money. Franklin P. Jones
• The most efficient water power in the world – women’s tears.  Wilson Mizner
• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.  Peter Drucker
• When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.  Oscar Wilde

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