Quotes About Productivity

Your time is not free, how you decide to use or not use your time will be paid at the end of your life

Time is limited and valuable in this world and those who understand this takes action

His famous example of the pin manufacturers makes this case. Smith explains how eighteen separate operations are employed to produce pins. Because of specialized technology and the division of labor, each employee could make 4,800 times more pins in a day than an individual could fabricate on his own.

For the first time, those who can educate and motivate themselves will be almost entirely free to invent their own work and realize the full benefits of their own productivity.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.

When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

Unequal societies are not only the most violent; they are also the least productive.

He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue Chang - Lost Horizon (1933)

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue...

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon

An idle genius is an oxymoron.

Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.

It is surprising," Roosevelt explained, "how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead freed his mind from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

If I wasn't busy, she replied, I'd go crazy.

If ever there was a country unprepared for the war, it was the U.S. in 1940. And yet now, only four years later, the United States was clearly the most productive, most powerful country on the face of the earth.

I find that without a place to work, it is difficult to work. I look forward with the greatest pleasure to the use of my books at night at home.