If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, the packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it anyway.Jeff Bezos
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.Robert Copeland
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
It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.Elon Musk
You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.Jim Rohn
Energy efficiency not only saves businesses and consumers money, but it also reduces pollution by cutting energy use.Jeff Van Drew
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work.Lawrence Clark Powell
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But often it seems to do the opposite.James Surowiecki
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.Barack Obama
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
The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.Steve Jobs
You can do big things with small teams, but it’s hard to do small things with big teams. And small is often plenty.Jason Fried