Quotes About Productivity

We spend so many hours a day - even if we're not physically in the office - working, thinking about work, and planning and setting up and organizing with work, even with our families.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.

If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.

In the hundreds of hours spent in Parliament debating Brexit, I constantly think of how we could have spent our time better.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

I have a lot of energy, and if I don't keep myself busy, I go crazy. I alphabetise the spice rack, separate the Lego from the Playmobile, colour-code the knicker drawers - it's scary! My house loves it when I'm working so the linen cupboard can get a rest. I just don't sit around.

It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I'm here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Man begets, but land does not beget.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.