Hudson Taylor said, "The Lord's work done in the Lord's way will never fail to have the Lord's provision." ...The Lord's work done in human energy is not the Lord's work any longer. It is something, but it is not the Lord's work.
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.
To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.
... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.
I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.
Our objective today is to get the greatest amount of work out of every individual.
It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work.
I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.
Either an executive can do his job or he can't.
Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
Never confuse activity with productivity.
To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.
Location is all about the efficiency of work for me.
It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.
The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.
Don't equate activity with efficiency.
A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.
I've never been one of those programmers that works effectively on short amounts of sleep. I've always needed eight hours.
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.
I'm in the factory a lot so I see how hard the guys work, but you never really know how quickly and effectively the other teams' development programmes are going until you get to the track. It's only then that we will be able to tell.