Quotes About Productivity

Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

One destructive mind-set that must be altered in our society is the thought that work is a curse.

What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

the payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.

I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn't going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.

Our civilisation being what it is, you've got to spent eight hours out of every twenty-four as a mixture between an imbecile and a sewing machine. It's very disagreeable, I know. It's humiliating and disgusting. But there you are. You've got to do it, otherwise the whole fabric of our world will fall to bits and we'll starve. Do the job then, idiotically and mechanically; and spend your leisure hours in being a real complete man or woman.

Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?