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Quotes About Productivity

The best cure for boredom is hard work.
~ Proverb
There sounds the horn! Breakfast is ready. A most useful and salutary custom is that of breakfast. One may work with the hands before breakfast, but not much with the head. The machine must be wound up.
~ Henry Ward Beecher, "Haying"
Caffeine isn't a drug, it's a vitamin!
~ Author Unknown
Don't drink coffee in the morning. It will keep you awake until noon.
~ Author Unknown
Coffee sparks our morning fuse.
~ Terri Guillemets
Given enough coffee, I could rule the world!
~ Author Unknown
Changing to Daylight Saving Time on Sunday should always be followed by a national holiday on Monday.
~ Internet meme
Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep...
~ Benjamin Franklin, 1756
You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.
~ Hap Holmstead
Friday — superhero of the workweek!
~ Internet meme
You do not at all understand my manner of life. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry; because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.
~ John Wesley, 1777
Instead of counting your days, make your days count.
~ Author Unknown
Laundry: Washing — 30 minutes Drying — 60 minutes Putting away — 7 to 10 business days
~ Internet meme
If the shelves are dusty and the pots don't shine, it's because I have better things to do with my time.
~ Author Unknown
He hated the oblivion of sleep. There was too much to do, too much of life to live. He grudged every moment of life sleep robbed him of, and before the clock had ceased its clattering he was head and ears in the washbasin and thrilling to the cold bite of the water.
~ Jack London
Get up early and go to bed late.
~ Jack Weatherford
So much to do, so much time
~ Jacob
I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.
~ Jacqueline Susann
there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.
~ Jacqueline Susann
Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.
~ Jacqueline Susann
Efficiency is a fact and justice a slogan.
~ Jacques Ellul
In China they used thousands of workmen where ten would suffice, because they got them cheap, and the results suffered. I concluded that the most expensive product in the world is cheap labor, because it lures you away from rational operations. You pay a man a high wage, you demand a high return, and from high returns you pick up a good profit. So ever since, I've believed in paying a man high wages, then taxing him like hell for the welfare of the state. The thing that
~ James A. Michener
he who delights in work will not long remain unemployed.
~ James Allen
The studied elimination of non-essentials from one's daily life is a vital factor in all great achievement.
~ James Allen