Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Nature does nothing in vain.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

Literally wrote ‚Starboy‘ in 30 minutes.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Prices 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.

If 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!

Delay is preferable to error.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

With 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.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

I have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

I don’t have a need for speed. I’m not that guy.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Humans 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.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Why 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.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.