Seth Godin on Efficiency Quotes

"Efficiency is for machines. Humans are for connection, for art, and for making things better."

"The most efficient way to get where you're going is to stop going to the wrong places."

"The most efficient way to win is to refuse to play the game everyone else is playing."

"True efficiency is finding the shortest path to making a difference."

"The most efficient way to change your habits is to change your environment."

"When you optimize for efficiency, you often sacrifice resilience."

"The problem with efficiency is that it often leads to a race to the bottom. If you're efficient at being average, you lose."

"If you are doing work that can be measured by a stopwatch, you are doing work that a machine will eventually do better and cheaper."

"If you want to be efficient, stop trying to please everyone. It’s a waste of energy."

"Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers. That is the ultimate efficiency in marketing."

"The most efficient way to spread an idea is to make it remarkable enough that people want to talk about it."

"Efficiency is a trap when it prevents you from doing the generous work that creates trust."

"If you're looking for the most efficient way to be creative, you've already lost."

"Real efficiency is the courage to do the work that matters most, even when it's uncomfortable."

"The most efficient way to write a book is to write every single day, whether you feel like it or not."

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

"An efficient factory is a wonderful thing, but an efficient human is often just a bored human."

"The most efficient communication is the one that is anticipated, personal, and relevant."

"Focus is the ultimate efficiency. Saying no to the 99 things that don't matter so you can say yes to the one that does."

"Optimization is the enemy of innovation. When you are too efficient, you leave no room for the happy accidents that change everything."

"Don't be efficient at digging a hole in the wrong place."

"Strategic quitting is the secret of successful people. It is the most efficient way to allocate your limited resources."

"The efficient path is rarely the path of the leader. Leadership requires the inefficiency of empathy and connection."

"Being busy is not the same as being efficient. Often, busy-ness is just a way to avoid the hard work of making a choice."

"The cost of being wrong is often less than the cost of doing nothing while you wait for the most efficient solution."

"The most efficient way to learn a new skill is to do it in public where the stakes matter."

"You can't be efficient at making art. Art requires the waste of time, the exploration of dead ends, and the human touch."

"If you're not failing, you're not being efficient with your learning. You're just playing it safe."

"The most efficient path to success is to fail often and early, so you can find the path that actually works."

"The best way to be efficient with your time is to stop checking your email every six minutes."

"The most efficient way to build a brand is to be consistent over a long period of time."

"It’s efficient to be a cog, but it’s not rewarding. And in the long run, cogs are easily replaced."

"It is far more efficient to be remarkable than it is to spend money on advertising to tell people you are average."