When [a hotel has] a soft opening, usually they're at 90 percent efficiency. It's not like they just woke up and said, 'Oh, we gotta open the restaurant.' They really want to hone it.

We do not think it is the right thing to do to take away the right to have a fair, secret, democratic ballot.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

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.

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency--clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought.