Quotes About Productivity

in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence." He warned that extremely skilled and productive employees often face criticism, and are fired if they don't start performing worse. Their presence "disrupts and therefore violates the first commandment of hierarchical life: the hierarchy must be preserved.

The efficiency of a hierarchy is inversely proportional to its Maturity Quotient, M.Q. MQ = No. of employees at level of incompetence × 100 Total no. of employees in hierarchy Obviously, when MQ reaches 100, no useful work will be accomplished at all.

Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.

IT SHOULD BE clear by now that when an employee reaches his level of incompetence, he can no longer do any useful work. Incompetent, Yes! Idle, No! This in no way suggests that the ultimate promotion suddenly changes the former worker into an idler. Not at all! In most cases he still wants to work; he still makes a great show of activity; he sometimes thinks he is working. Yet actually little that is useful is accomplished

Practicality was baked into their bones. They wasted nothing, especially not time.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

L'ozio rende lente le ore e veloci gli anni. L'operosità rapide le ore e lenti gli anni.

2. Not overcoming laziness and so forth

It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

Keeping skills up to date requires the investment of time, effort, and perhaps even money for tuition. But it's worth it for an extra decade of productive activity.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.

My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!

Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day

For a week or a fortnight I can write prodigiously in a retired place (as at Broadstairs), and a day in London sets me up again and starts me. But the toil and labour of writing, day after day, without that magic lantern, is IMMENSE!!... My figures seem disposed to stagnate without crowds about them.

Your greatest danger is letting the urgent things crowd out the important.

There is an insidious tendency to neglect important tasks that do not have to be done today—or even this week.

Learn to keep the door shut, keep out of your mind, out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite helpful end in view.