Efficiency Vs Effectiveness Quotes

#1. The best-known definition of usability is the one from ISO, the International Organization for Standardization (9241-11): "The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use.

Carol Barnum

#2. I thought that once I figured out thirteen, then it was history,

Sherman Alexie

#3. Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.

Pearl Zhu

#4. There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.

Charles Lindbergh

#5. We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

William McDonough

#6. serenity, the calm daughter of tolerance

Erich Maria Remarque

#7. I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things ... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.

Joanne Harris

#8. Progress and motion are not synonymous.

Tim Fargo

#9. Day and night - ruthlessly apply key lessons of mankind such as leaving greed, fear and lust to improve the efficiency & effectiveness of life.

V.V. Rao

#10. Efficiency is about doing things right. Effectiveness is about doing the right things.

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#11. Think effectively Do efficiently. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. Efficiency is doing the right thing in the right manner, the first time.

Avinash Narula

#12. The priority has to be set for lifting IT and overall business maturity from efficiency to effectiveness to agility.

Pearl Zhu

#13. Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.

Curious George Brigade

#14. Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

William McDonough

#15. Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

Milton Friedman

#16. Things are done quickly enough if done well. If just quickly done they can be quickly undone.

Baltasar Gracian

#17. A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in an annual report.

Pearl Zhu

#18. Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Peter F. Drucker

#19. Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Jacques Ellul

#20. efficiency is doing the job right, effectiveness is doing the right job.

Richard Templar

#21. Effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships around principles; ineffective people attempt to manage their time around priorities and their tasks around goals. Think effectiveness with people; efficiency with things.

Stephen R. Covey

#22. We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.

Stephen Covey

#23. While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.

Stephen Covey

#24. Francie loved the smell of coffee and the way it was hot. As she ate her bread and meat, she kept one hand curved about the cup enjoying its warmth. From time to time, she'd smell the bitter sweetness of it. That was better than drinking it. At the end of the meal, it went downt the sink.

Betty Smith

#25. You can't be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can't serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can't step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.

Bill Courtney

#26. Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

Tim Ferriss

#27. True productivity is not first about efficiency - doing things right and doing them quickly - but effectiveness - doing the right things.

Matt Perman

#28. We're giving up free range, getting organized, feathering our emotions. Efficiency an effectiveness and all those other pieces of intellectual artifice. And with the loss of free range, the cowboy disappears, along with the mountain lion and gray wolf. There's not much room left for travelers.

Robert James Waller

#29. You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

Stephen Covey

#30. More important than efficiency is effectiveness - getting the right things done. In other words, productivity is not first about getting more things done faster. It's about getting the right things done.

Matt Perman

#31. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

#32. Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

John C. Maxwell

#33. Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process.

Robert E. Davis

#34. No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.

Edward Whitacre Jr.