Quotes About Productivity

It's even more of a torture not to work than to work.

If I can do something in less than one minute, I don't let myself procrastinate. I hang up my coat, put newspapers in the recycling, scan and toss a letter. Ever since I wrote about this rule in 'The Happiness Project,' I've been amazed by how many people have told me that it has made a huge difference in their lives.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.

I've found I get big things done when I'm on airplanes or in hotel rooms. It's a total needle-mover to book a fantastic room in a place you adore and then put the 'do not disturb' on the phone and door for a week.

productivity meetings were just about the least productive thing ever devised by middle management, and that was saying plenty. Those corporate frat boys were master time-wasters. Their other major skills included ass-covering, blame-shifting, and brownnosing.

El reto es ejecutar las metas más importantes sin dejar aquello que es urgente.

I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.

Only two kinds of people in the world; those who 'get it done,' and everybody else.

The application of time and skill to frivolous things is the hallmark of civilized society

The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.

A Tablet a day and what I could do with my day was LIMITLESS!

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

His dictum was, "Let not a single hour pass in which you do not devote yourself to prayer, reading, writing or some other useful work.

you became a positive, productive Self-Talker

Each of us has three resources which allow us to get through any given day. Those resources are our time, our energy, and our minds (what and how we think).

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Time's going to pass anyway, so it's prioritizing what to do with that.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.

The real achiever do one thing at a time.