Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

If you see something that doesn't make sense, ask. Change it. Think about dollars, think about your soldiers' time, think about efficiency.

Growth hackers don't tolerate waste.

I was born trying to figure out why other kids were just playing in a circle. What are you doing in the circle? Duck, Duck, Goose? What is the goose supposed to do? You could be organizing; you could be producing products that are for sale. You have a circle, but how are you utilizing it?

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

I try to be as efficient as possible because in my process, I think that actually helps the work. I like having the pressure of time and money and really trying to stick to the parameters we've been given.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

System: Save yourself time, energy and money.

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.

...doing more with less.

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Making everything more efficient should make everybody happier.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful.

Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.