Quotes About Productivity

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Thomas Mann was a prodigy of production. Working full time, he wrote a page a day. That is 365 pages a year, for he did write every day—a good-sized book a year. At a page a day, he was one of the most prolific literary writers who ever lived.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

England's worst boss? I don't think so. England's worst boss is the boss who doesn't give a fuck, someone who's wasting his employees' time, challenging them to do nothing more ambitious than show up.

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

If you've ever felt stress—and who hasn't?—chances are excellent that it's because you felt you just didn't have enough time to do what you wanted to at the level of quality to which you were committed.

I can't afford to waste my time making money. —JEAN LOUIS AGASSIZ

All you have to do to earn more money in the same amount of time is simply become more valuable.

The One Minute Manager

Because effort with effective execution creates magic.

complexity is the enemy of execution.

Se ha llegado a decir que «matar el tiempo no es asesinato, sino suicidio».

When I work, I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action.

idleness is the root of all evil.

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

Six paradoxes of Mature Socialism: 1) There's no unemployment, but no one works; 2) no one works, but productivity goes up; 3) productivity goes up, but stores are empty; 4) stores are empty, but fridges are full; 5) fridges are full, but no one is satisfied; 6) no one is satisfied, but everyone votes yes.

As usual, there aren't enough last minutes.

Lo scopo del lavoro è quello di guadagnarsi il tempo libero.

W]here there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them...

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Loyal, happy employees are engaged employees—and engaged employees are profitable employees

ROWE (Results-Only Work Environment). Basically you work whenever, wherever, and however you want—as long as you get the job done. This option can only work if your employer is not only incredibly flexible but also incredibly clear on what you're supposed to accomplish. At the same time, you have to be extremely well organized and self-directed.