Brian Tracy Quotes

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

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

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

I'm always trying to do things better than I've done them before, do them faster than I've done them before.

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

One of the key principles we have at Amazon is 'by a fraction.' We like to get things done quickly.

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

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Ask yourself: given everything you have to do, is there a way that we can make this better?

I just want to do the least work in the least time and make the most money.

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?

Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.

The aim should be to work on the method of management.

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

When you're fast when you're shooting, there are great things that you discover. By being fast you also sometimes get more time to experiment.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

Everything can be improved.