Quotes About Productivity

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.

What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

Your time, energy and resources will get used no matter how well you focus them. By choosing to focus properly, you get the highest return for the efforts you invest in your life. Most people spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. Productivity is not just about getting things done, it's about getting the right things done.

However inventive humans turn out to be, they will never invent their way around the laws of thermodynamics. That fundamental truth is denied by standard infinite-growth theory, which blithely projects productivity gains from technological innovation indefinitely into the future.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

What was the use of propriety when it kept one from getting things done?

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

It is inexcusable to refuse to work, to work slackly or perversely, or to mar the work of others.

I can never afford to be in arrears with anything that I have to do; I must always be abreast or ahead of my tasks.

Research shows that when you receive frequent interruptions while working on a task, your performance drops the equivalent of ten IQ points. In other words, when you multi-task you are ten points dumber on the core task than you are if you just focused on the core task. Some of us cannot afford to multi-task.1

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.

You were born to work, so why do you look for rest?