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Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is read more
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.
Cheating is often more efficient.
Cheating is often more efficient.
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to read more
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will read more
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.
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in read more
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty read more
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is read more
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
