Success...Issues...EFFECTIVENESS
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0455 P
“Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things." — Bill Reddin
[paraphrased]
EFFECTIVENESS, Personal Management
0456
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
— Peter F. Drucker
EFFECTIVENESS, Personal Management
0457
“Forget not on every occasion to ask thyself, is this not one of the unnecessary things?” — Marcus Aurelius
EFFECTIVENESS, Personal Management, Thought
0458 A
“No labor bestowed upon a worthless thing can be productive of fruit; even by a hundred efforts
a crane cannot be made to talk like a parrot.” — The Hitopadesa
EFFECTIVENESS, Personal Management
0459 P
“Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between
the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.” — Max Born
EFFECTIVENESS, Wisdom, Judgment
0460 P
“If you’re doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are
you are doing it wrong.” — Charles F. Kettering
EFFECTIVENESS, Change, Innovation, Decision Making
0461
“It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.” — Henry F. Harrower
EFFECTIVENESS, Perception, Excellence, Planning
0462 A
“It isn’t so much how busy you are - but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito
is swatted.” — Roger Devlin
EFFECTIVENESS, Personal Management
0463
“Never confuse motion with action” — Ernest Hemingway
EFFECTIVENESS, Motivation
0464
“Do not tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.” — James J. Ling
EFFECTIVENESS, Personal Management
0465 A
“Two men cut wood all day long. One worked straight through, without stopping to rest. At the
end of the day he had a sizable pile of logs. The other would chop for 50 minutes and then take a ten-minute break. At the end of the day he had a much larger pile. ‘How could you chop more?’ asked the man who’d worked continuously. His friend replied, ‘When I stopped for rest, I also sharpened my ax.’” — Unknown
EFFECTIVENESS, Personal Management, Knowledge
0466 C
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion (and) the thing to be done swells
in importance and complexity in a direct ratio with the time to be spent.” —
C(yril) Northcote Parkinson
EFFECTIVENESS, Personal Management
0467 CA
“The bird that flutters least is the longest on the wing.” — William Cowper
EFFECTIVENESS, Personal Management, Health & Fitness
0468
“There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.” — Benjamin Disraeli
EFFECTIVENESS, Wealth, Prudence
0469
“Economy is of itself a great revenue.” — Marcus Tulius Cicero
EFFECTIVENESS, Wealth
0470
“The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.” — Andre Maurois
EFFECTIVENESS, Personal Management, Adversity
0471 A
“For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.”
— Henry David Thoreau
EFFECTIVENESS, Decision Making
0472 H
“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the
moment.” — Robert Benchley
EFFECTIVENESS, Motivation, Accountability
0473 H
“There are three ways to get something done; do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your
children to do it.” — Monta Crane
EFFECTIVENESS, Family & Friends
0474
“Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” — Madame Anne Swetchine
EFFECTIVENESS, Personal Management
0475
“Travel is the perfect liberty to think, feel, do just as one pleases.”
— William Hazlitt
EFFECTIVENESS, Personal Management, Individualism, Government
0476 H
“Man is still the best computer that we can put aboard a spacecraft - and the only one that can
be mass-produced with unskilled labor.” — Wernher Von Braun
EFFECTIVENESS, Decision Making
0477 H
“It no longer makes any sense to bother to use an apostrophe between the n and t in words like
dont and isnt.” — Andy Rooney
EFFECTIVENESS, Arts
EFFECTIVENESS Cross-References
Wealth—53 • Motivation—96, 109, 113 •
Perseverance—151 • Planning—165 • Happiness—247 •
Procrastination—253 • Haste—361-362, 365-366 •
Personal Management—415-416, 418-419, 421-423, 429-430, 432, 434, 437, 439, 442-443, 445, 450-453 •
Knowledge—521, 527, 531, 546 • Chance—659 • Judgment—685 •
Genius—706 • Innovation—735, 738, 740 • God—989-990 •
Faith—1004 • Business—1049, 1053-1055 • Leadership—1144-1147 •
Accountability—1155 • Competition—1178, 1188 •
Punishment—1216-1217, 1220, 1227 • Politics—1233 •
Government—1251 • War & Peace—1320 • Individualism—1344 •
Family & Friends—1369 • Change—1456 • Health &
Fitness—1483-1484, 1487, 1489
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