Quotes About Productivity

Hay una regla que dice que cada minuto invertido en planificación ahorra diez minutos de ejecución.

It takes only about 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan out your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to two hours (100 to 120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort throughout the day. You

Cuanto más tiempo tomes en planificar la tarea antes de empezar, y en anotar cada paso, más rápido la completarás cuando empieces a trabajar.

your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.

The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life.

The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life. This key insight is the heart and soul of this book. This

Mark Twain once said that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long. Your

When you get up and invest the first hour in yourself, you set yourself up mentally to have an excellent day. You will be more positive, alert, creative, and productive all day long when you start your day by investing the first hour in yourself.

Three Steps to Mastery First, read in your field for at least one hour every day. Get up a little earlier in the morning and read for thirty to sixty minutes in a book or magazine that contains information that can help you to be more effective and productive at what you do. Second

An "A" activity is something that moves you toward your goal, the faster and more directly the better. A "B" activity is an activity that does not move you toward a goal that is important to you.

Every minute of every day, ask yourself, "What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?" and then discipline yourself to work on only that task until it is complete.

There is a special way that you can accelerate your progress toward becoming the highly productive, effective, efficient person that you want to be.

Una de las señas de identidad de todos los gerentes exitosos, y de todas las personas eficaces, es una intensa orientación hacia los resultados. Una de las señas de identidad de la gente ineficaz es que se centra en las actividades y no en los logros.

When I started selling, someone told me about the Pareto principle, also known as the 80/20 rule. He said, "The top 20 percent of salespeople make 80 percent of the money, and the bottom 80 percent only make 20 percent of the money.

Agile terminology describes this type of flowchart as an "information radiator." Having large, highly visible displays lets everyone on the team track everyone else's progress. "If you have something public like this in your home," Jeff said, "I guarantee you'll get twice as much done. Guarantee.

Pay him a decent salary and work him hard. That way he won't have enough time to write anything on the side. But don't pay him so much that he can save up money to quit.

So, while the spouse-child hides out in his "home office"—a misnomer since he's never produced any actual work there—his

Summer has weeks left, but once the calendar displays the word "September," you'd think it was Latin for "evacuate." I pity them for missing the best weather and the most energized time of year…It's an extremely impressive display of life at the apogee of summer, the year's productivity mounded and piled past the angle of repose. It is a world lush with the living, a world that-despite the problems- still has what it takes to really produce.

No gastes neuronas en lo que no funciona.

If you don't smoke cannabis, you may spend your evening balancing your checking account. If you do smoke cannabis you may spend your evening contemplating the causes of the Greek Renaissance.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

Sitting in front of a keyboard and a screen is work. Thousands of offices operate on this very principle.