Streamlining Quotes

When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.

When I came into the oil there was chaos. I brought order…. It was done the way it was because that was the way it had to be done.

Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

I think the rest of the world has a very wide, very slow kick. It's very simple, breaststroke. People think it's highly technical. But the more narrow, more effective and quicker you can execute it, the faster you are going to go. There's less drag, basically.

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 just try and keep everything simple.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

What's the problem you solve? Solve it for one person. Create a system to do it without you. Duplicate.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.

Technology is a wonderful thing. It should reduce errors, save taxpayers money, and be a tool to help agencies accomplish their missions. It should not be a burden.

Making more sense out of my data, my needs, my tasks - to me, that's the future of Office.

I think a lot can be said for consolidation, but I think it should be done for the right reasons.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.