Quotes About Productivity

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing. 828

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue," resumed the whisper.

Stop for a moment... "You don't need more time. You need to use the time you already have differently.

At the same time, in speaking to women's groups, I have suggested that women look at men this way: if they took away their own network of intimate friends, those with whom they share their personal journey, removed their sense of instinctual guidance, concluded that they were almost wholly alone in the world, and understood that they would be defined only by standards of productivity external to them, they would then know the inner state of the average man.

Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.

I don't listen to music when I write. If I do, I usually end up giving it my whole attention, which means, unfortunately, I don't get much work done!

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.

I find my best writing time is actually 6 A.M., before the detritus of the day - the fish fingers and the school uniform and dogs and bills - have had a chance to clog up my brain. I can usually get 500 words done before 7 A.M. But it is difficult, and the Internet, and social networking, are terrible timesucks.

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

The U.S. has done a great job improving productivity. We're making a lot more steel in Dearborn with fewer people. The unions have accepted much better work rules.

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.

America used to be a uniquely productive, low-cost place to do business. We had efficient infrastructure. We had limited regulation. We believed in the market.

The unique value that Microsoft can add is around productivity and platforms. Productivity is broadly something we can uniquely do.

The only way to create prosperity is to do more with less. In economic terms, an increase in productivity is an increase in the amount or quality of output generated for each unit of input. Jobs do not make society wealthier - productivity does.

The United Nations needs to be nimble, efficient, and effective.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.