Quotes About Productivity

Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

That man is idle who can do something better.

If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

That's how you become successful, man - you gotta stay busy.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

so efficient it doesn't waste power by making noise

Wealth that is stored up in gold is dead. It rots and stinks. True wealth is made every day by men getting up out of bed and going to work.

Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a productive economy. But it would be easy to see a will at work behind this: not exactly an evil will, but a selfish will. The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story.

serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

Shit, if I took time out to have an opinion about everything, I wouldn't get any work done

Wealth that is stored up in gold is dead. It rots and stinks. True wealth is made every day by men getting up out of bed and going to work. By schoolchildren doing their lessons, improving their minds. Tell

Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a productive economy.

Wealth that is stored up in gold is dead. It rots and stinks. True wealth is made every day by men getting up out of bed and going to work. By schoolchildren doing their lessons, improving their minds.