Winston Churchill on Efficiency Quotes

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

"The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities."

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."

"Give us the tools, and we will finish the job."

"Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential."

"I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen."

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

"Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries."

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."

"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

"I am a man of simple tastes; I am easily satisfied with the best."

"Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential."

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

"We must just keep on pegging away."

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."

"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all."

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that you slay the monster and fling him to the public."

"I never worry about action, but only about inaction."

"Pray let it be settled today."

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge."

"We must build a kind of United States of Europe."

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

"The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences."