Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen CoveyI’m no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
David ByrneIt has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry FordThe physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren’t properly alert.
David ByrnePeople who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Thomas SowellWork is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand RussellHumans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.
Jeff BezosTechnological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous HuxleyLet all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Benjamin FranklinMove fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
Mark ZuckerbergAnd I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.
Jimmy BuffettGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham LincolnIf you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
Fidel CastroIf Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.
Joel OsteenWe should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
Narendra ModiIt’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia WoolfI’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.
Jeff BezosTell them to send everything that can fly.
Richard M. NixonYou and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Margaret ThatcherI cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late ’70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho.
David ByrnePrices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
Thomas SowellSmell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen KellerI don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.
Dolly PartonWhy there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.
Isaac Newton90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
Colin PowellThe civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy neighbor has a circular driveway… he can’t get out.
Steven WrightFlying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.
Bill GatesI like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.
Elon MuskIf you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.
Elon MuskSince thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Benjamin FranklinThe simplification of anything is always sensational.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPeople don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
Bill GatesFrom the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.
Noam ChomskyThe least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Thomas SowellDetermine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas JeffersonI got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.
Steven WrightYoung people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
Pope FrancisI’m the slowest driver in the world.
Anthony HopkinsOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert HubbardThere appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
J. K. RowlingThere is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Joseph AddisonYeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you’ll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it’s twice the efficiency of a Prius.
Elon MuskFuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.
Robert KiyosakiIf I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!
Richard P. FeynmanYou have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
Bill GatesWith the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.
Jeff BezosThe thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
Mark ZuckerbergEven though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.
Robert KiyosakiJust in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill GatesCycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.
David ByrneThe only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMost people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry FordLet your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
George WashingtonI like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.
Karl LagerfeldMy observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
George WashingtonShort cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TolkienTime is bunk.
Douglas AdamsIf we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.
Elon MuskThe less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee