Quotes About Productivity

Why is it that men give so poor an account of their day if they have not been slumbering?

We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

There is actually no limit to the amount of work to be done. Work creates work. What A produces constitutes the demand for what B produces.

whole more than it produces. The best way to raise wages, therefore, is to raise marginal labor productivity. This can be done by many methods: by an increase in capital accumulation—

So government policy should be directed, not to imposing more burdensome requirements on employers, but to following policies that encourage profits, that encourage employers to expand, to invest in newer and better machines to increase the productivity of workers—

one occupation can expand only at the expense of all other occupations.

Full employment—very full employment; long, weary, back-breaking employment—is characteristic of precisely the nations that are most retarded industrially.

A menudo, incluso hace más provechosa la especulación que el esfuerzo productor.

No hay límite al trabajo por hacer, mientras haya necesidad o deseos humanos insatisfechos, que el trabajo pueda atender.

no cabe distribuir más riqueza que la creada; no es posible, a la larga, pagar al conjunto de la mano de obra más de lo que produce.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

When you can't create, you can work

One can sleep almost anywhere, but one must have a place to work. Even if it's not a masterpiece you're doing. Even a bad novel requires a chair to sit on and a bit of privacy.

people who work themselves to the bone and when they produce young they preach to the young the gospel of work - which is nothing, at bottom, but the doctrine of inertia.

It's hard to know, when you're in such a jam, which is worse—not having a place to sleep or not having a place to work. One can sleep almost anywhere, but one must have a place to work. Even if it's not a masterpiece you're doing. Even a bad novel requires a chair to sit on and a bit of privacy.

To think that he can lie beside that furnace I stoked for him and do nothing but make water!

Debería ser rico para tener una secretaria a la que dictar, mientras camino, porque las mejores ideas se me ocurren siempre cuando estoy lejos de la máquina.

I ought to be rich enough to have a secretary to whom I could dictate as I walk, because my best thoughts always come when I am away from the machine.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Happy, thrice happy, every one Who sees his labor well begun, And not perplexed and multiplied, By idly waiting for time and tide!

Time. The other side doesn't seem to be under the same kind of organizational pressure, time constraints, and restrictive deadlines you feel you're under.

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.

I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.

For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.