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Marc Andreessen didn't just study Efficiency—they mastered it. This archive captures the principles and frameworks they developed through direct experience. Each quote includes source context, allowing you to trace their thinking from observation to insight. Use this collection when you're serious about understanding Efficiency at a deeper level, not just consuming motivational content.
"Personal efficiency starts with a ruthless elimination of meetings."
"A small, elite team is always more efficient than a large, mediocre one."
"The goal of technology is to make the inefficient efficient."
"Software eats the world because software is more efficient than atoms."
"Technology is the lever that turns human effort into massive efficiency."
"The most efficient way to build a company is to find product-market fit as fast as possible."
"True efficiency comes from doing things that don't scale until you find what does."
"If you aren't iterating, you aren't being efficient; you're just being slow."
"Software is the primary mechanism for driving efficiency in the modern world."
"Time is the only non-renewable resource; efficiency is how we protect it."
"The productivity of a developer is the ultimate lever for economic growth."
"Efficiency is about the flow of information without friction."
"Optimizing for the short term is often the most inefficient long-term strategy."
"Innovation is the process of making the impossible efficient."
"Software allows us to scale efficiency globally at the click of a button."
"The most efficient organizations are those with the fewest layers of management."
"Don't mistake activity for efficiency."
"Productivity is the result of focus, not just effort."
"Bureaucracy is the tax we pay for a lack of efficiency."
"In a world of software, the marginal cost of efficiency is zero."
"Efficiency in a startup means doing only what matters for the customer."
"The most efficient way to learn is to fail fast and pivot."
"The best way to increase efficiency is to simplify the problem."
"Automation is the realization of human efficiency."
"We need to build, and building requires a focus on radical efficiency."
"The internet is the ultimate efficiency engine for information."
"High-growth startups are inherently inefficient in capital but efficient in time."
"The market is an efficiency-seeking machine."
"Efficiency is the byproduct of removing human error through automation."
"The biggest drag on efficiency is the fear of change."
"Speed of execution is the ultimate form of business efficiency."
"Capital efficiency is the difference between a survivor and a statistic."
"Decision making is the bottleneck of organizational efficiency."
"Efficiency without vision is just doing the wrong things faster."
"The faster the feedback loop, the higher the efficiency."
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