Top 100 Efficiency Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.”

— Mark Cuban

52. “Work faster, smarter and harder.”

— Larry Winget

53. “Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.”

— Brian Tracy

54. “Leaders don’t make excuses. They create results.”

— Robin S. Sharma

55. “The checklist is one of the most high-powered productivity tools ever discovered.”

— Brian Tracy

56. “Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.”

— J. R. D. Tata

57. “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

58. “Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.”

— Brian Tracy

59. “Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.”

— Henry Ford

60. “To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

61. “Do whatever you have to do as quickly as you can, so you can do whatever you WANT to do, for as long as you can.”

— Jim Rohn

62. “Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.”

— Masaaki Imai

63. “There’s nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.”

— Ayn Rand

64. “Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

65. “Invest time, don’t spend it.”

— Jeffrey Gitomer

66. “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”

— Peter F. Drucker

67. “If you want it, measure it. If you can’t measure it, forget it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

68. “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”

— David Allen

69. “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”

— Richard Whately

70. “People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.”

— John C. Maxwell

71. “I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”

— Pearl S. Buck

72. “You can’t control what you can’t measure.”

— Tom DeMarco

73. “Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, ‘what is the most valuable use of my time right now?’”

— Brian Tracy

74. “Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.”

— Tim Ferriss

75. “Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!”

— Brian Tracy

76. “Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.”

— John C. Maxwell

77. “Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.”

— Henry Ford

78. “There’s no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something.”

— Desiree Rogers

79. “Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn’t make it productive or worthwhile.”

— Tim Ferriss

80. “Kill time and you will kill your career.”

— B.C. Forbes

81. “Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.”

— David Allen

82. “Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.”

— Taiichi Ohno

83. “Three Tips: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.”

— Jakob Nielsen

84. “You have to ruthlessly prioritize.”

— Marissa Meyer

85. “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

— Thomas Jefferson

86. “Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.”

— Greg McKeown

87. “It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.”

— Gary W. Keller

88. “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”

— Milton Friedman

89. “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

90. “The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.”

— Taiichi Ohno

91. “I want to do one thing, and do it well.”

— Jan Koum

92. “Nothing works unless you do the work.”

— Robin S. Sharma

93. “Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.”

— Larry Winget

94. “Do first things first, and second things not at all.”

— Peter F. Drucker

95. “Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

96. “Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.”

— Solomon

97. “Knowledge applied is productivity.”

— Peter F. Drucker

98. “Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.”

— Peter F. Drucker

99. “You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.”

— Maxwell Maltz

100. “Done is better than perfect.”

— Sheryl Sandberg