WHAT IS EFFICIENCY.

Matamata Record, Volume VII, Issue 587, 4 December 1924, Page 2

WHAT IS EFFICIENCY.

What is efficiency? It is doing things, not wishing you could do them,, dreaming about them, or wondering if you can do 'them. It is the power to learn how to do things by doing them, as learning to walk by walking, learning to sell goods by selling them. It is knowing how to apply theory to practice. It is the trick of turning defeat into experience and using it .to achieve success. It is the ability to mass one's personality at any given time or place; it is skill in quick mobilisation of one's resources. It is making everything that is past minister to the future. It is the elimination of the three microbes of weakness—regret, worry and fear. It is self-reliance clothed with modesty. It is persistence plus politeness. It is the hand of steel in the velvet glove. It is alertness, presence of mind, readiness to adjust one's self to the unexpected. It is sacrificing personal feelings to the will to win. It is impinging the ego against the combination of events—luck, fate, custom and prejudice—until they give way. It is massing the me against the universe. It is the sum of three quantities—purpose, practice and patience. It is the measure of a man, the real size of his soul. It is the ability to use one's passions, likes, dislikes, habits, experience, education, mind, body and heart —and not to be used by these things. It is the sum total of all that's in a man.