Quotes About Productivity

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.

Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

Pattern Consistency is a major key to time-management. Search for and discover the best time to do planning, and do your planning at that same time every day. When the priorities receive their own place in the day, each day will have the same pattern. Pattern begets comfort and productivity. Patience An abundance of patience is needed to manage time consistently. Making the change to becoming a good time-manager may be very difficult.

las personas son mucho más productivas cuando sienten que son parte de un equipo. Debe ser una fuerza colectiva. Nadie debería estar por encima de alguien más".

Today, I would say at last, this disciplinary Tourette's syndrome, where suddenly and even in the face of tremendous productivity architecture still blurts out a sense of shame, is starting to be understood as self-imposed and more likely to prolong paralysis than move the discipline further.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.

I'd rather you waste my money than waste my time.

Tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.

Make hay while the sun shines.

It's imperative that we limit overtly recreational activities that do not lead to constructive results.

You must appreciate that time is always against you. It is never kind or encouraging. It gnaws away invisibly at all good things. Therefore, if you have any desire to accomplish anything, even the simplest task, do it swiftly and with great purpose, or time will drag it away from you.

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

Well, I've never been a morning person either." Perhaps that is true. But the question is this: Has that habit of personality been a blessing or a curse to you?