Efficient

Efficient may refer to:

  • Efficiency, the extent to which time or effort is well used for the intended task or purpose
  • Efficient (horse) (foaled 2003), a Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Efficient Networks, a modem manufacturer once a division of Siemens now part of Gigaset Communications

Famous quotes containing the word efficient:

    “I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you’re going to be lazy.”
    —Shirley Conran (b. 1932)

    “An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The truly efficient laborer will not crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task, surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure, and then do but what he loves best. He is anxious only about the fruitful kernels of time.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)