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Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.

In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare.

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency--clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.