efficiency, n.Definitions

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

Efficiency is a highly developed form of laziness.

Efficiency is nothing but intelligent laziness.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

Efficiency is distinguished from effectiveness in this: efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Efficiency is paradoxical. In the American home, there are more time-saving devices and less leisure than ever before.

Efficiency is the ability to do a job well, plus the desire to do it better

Efficiency is the knack of getting somebody to do a job you don’t like.