Adam Ondra Quotes

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.

The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

I read poetry to save time.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature. For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.

You’re putting in the same number of hours a week but we are just repackaging it more efficiently.

I'm all about time management. I have gotten my makeup prep in the morning down to, like, four minutes. There's just not enough time in the day.

Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.

I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.

As a tech optimist, I believe productivity woes can be solved through cleverly imagined and implemented technology.

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

There's always a better way to do something.

We look for partners who are solving a problem for us. If they've already solved it, we'd much rather try to partner with them than try to rebuild it.

I try to do anything I can to quicken things up.

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

Computerization eliminates the middleman

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.