Quotes About Productivity

Activity is not productive; it is the tool-and-result-ish, ontological-dialectical unity of a post-postmodern world.

Riddle: Early to bed and early to rise does what?

Sin embargo, olvidas dos cosas: a fuerza de no hacer nada, se acaba por no hacer nada.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Frederick Taylor

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerably amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and convince his employer that he is going at a good price.

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

ìIdleness is the parent of all psychologyî

As part of his ongoing quest for a better allocation of his own time, he decreed that he would no longer have one-on-one meetings with his subordinates. These meetings tended to be filled with trivial updates and political distractions, rather than problem solving and brainstorming. Even today, Bezos rarely meets alone with an individual colleague.

You can work long, hard, and smart, but at Amazon.com you can pick only two out of three.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

Distractions don't exist. We either procrastinate or we are committed. What we call distractions are simply an excuse to procrastinate further.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics?

Oh, I wouldn't say that. Work, my dear Blushweaver, is like fertilizer." "It smells?" He smiled. "No, I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

I find myself with an abundance of everything but time.

I can both talk to her and bother you!" M-Bot called. "Multitasking is an essential means by which an artificial intelligence achieves more efficiency than fleshy human brains.

Si siempre llegas a tiempo, eso significa que nunca tienes nada mejor que hacer.

One man lying about is being idle; two men lying about is a lunch break.

The only 'unseemly' thing is to not channel your intelligence usefully.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. Saze