Quotes About Productivity

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

So the worker works part of the day for their wages, part of the day to pay for equipment, loans, raw materials and part of the day to create the profit. So the worker works part of the day for free, creating the profit not for himself or herself but for the capitalist. And

Additional manpower doesn't always speed things up," said Kelly. "Yes, perspiration is important. But it's also true that nine women can't have a baby in a month.

You know the old adage: nine women can't make a baby in a month.

If food were free, why work?

I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.

Is a programmer who gets 99% of assignments done on time and 95% error free better than one who gets only 92% done on time but with a 99% error-free rate? Is total product quality higher if the defect rate is 15% lower but customer returns are 10% higher? Is "strategic alignment" higher if the profit went up by 10% but the "total quality index" went down by 5%?

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

But do you want to be efficient like a machine, or fruitful like a tree?

I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

Always have some project under way . . . an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]

I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.