Quotes About Productivity

The French say you get hungry when you're eating, and I get inspired when I'm working. It's my engine

Moments are the elements of profit

to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, [and] criticise after dinner...

In general, the greater the productiveness of labour, the less is the labour time required for the production of an article, the less is the amount of labour crystallised in that article, and the less is its value;

To sum up: the more productive capital grows, the more it extends the division of labour and the application of machinery; the more the division of labour and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Diligence in some compels idleness in others.

It is easy to imagine a society which, having reached a certain level of consumption, consciously decides to give absolute priority to a single goal: reduction of the work load.

Economy of time, to this all economy ultimately reduces itself.

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for other jobs.

Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .