Quotes About Productivity

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

organizations need to shift their emphasis from getting more out of people to investing more in them, so they are motivated—and able—to bring more of themselves to work every day.

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.

Pearman, R. P., Lombardo, M. M., Eichinger, R. W. (2005) You: Being More Effective in Your MBTI Type. Minneapolis: Lominger Limited.

we didn't always assume that just doing stuff that someone else is paying you for is of value

At 6 A.M., I quit email because that's what writers do if they want to get some motherfucking writing done.

What sort of brainwashing, he had wondered, had created a world in which people worked fifty or sixty hours a week, every week, no matter how beautiful the day outside, no matter what thoughts they were having? Where would the paintings come from? The novels and sculptures? The music?

Whoop! 6K words, 21 pages, and 8 miles on the treadmill -- DONE! #ProductiveDay #LetThereBeIceCream

To write three series a year you only need to commit to writing 10 pages per day, or editing 50 pages of text per day. Plus, writing is my job, and I need to write to eat, so I'm highly motivated to get up and get to work!

Who in the same given time can produce more than many others, has vigour; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up.

Efficiency is a ratio, not an absolute.

Because it often proves difficult to downsize a work force even if people don't have anything to do.

Success in the pulps depended on speed and imagination, and Hubbard had both in abundance. The church estimates that between 1934 and 1936, he was turning out a hundred thousand words of fiction a month. He was writing so fast that he began typing on a roll of butcher paper to save time. When a story was finished, he would tear off the sheet using a T-square and mail it to the publisher.

When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly; it's just the beginning.

When you're young you have to invent tasks to fill the time, while I can kill an hour just making myself some tea. She

Focus means saying "no." Jobs focuses Apple's limited resources on a small number of projects it can execute well.

Focus on what you are good at; delegate all else. Jobs doesn't direct animated movies or woo Wall Street. He concentrates on what he's good at.

Concentre-se naquilo em que você é bom; delegue todo o resto. Jobs não dirige filmes de animação nem namora Wall Street. Ele se concentra naquilo em que é bom.

As product schedules get tighter and the level of difficulty rises, the first casualty is innovation,

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.