Doing the right thing Quote by Mani S. Sivasubramanian

“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

“While efficiency is important, it is secondary. More important than efficiency is effectiveness — getting the right things done. Efficiency doesn’t matter if you…

— Matt Perman

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

— Peter Drucker

Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the…

— Tim Ferriss

“What saves us is efficiency—the devotion to efficiency.”

— Joseph Conrad

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

— Stephen Covey

“One of the best places for efficiency is being efficient with things so that you can be effective with people.”

— Matt Perman

“Efficiency doesn’t matter if you are doing the wrong things in the first place.”

— Matt Perman

“Effectiveness" - working on tasks which bring you closer to the goal, everything else is just an excuse.”

— Alexander Yunus

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

— John C. Maxwell

“Again, you simply can’t think efficiency with people. You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things. I’ve tried to be “efficient” with a…

— Stephen R. Covey