Quotes About Productivity

I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Work efficiently during office hours and leave on time. Give the required time to your family, friends & have proper rest. Value has a value only if its value is valued.

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

To look around at what you have accomplished in a day gives a man a good feeling. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completeness satisfies a man.

It's up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

When you have to work, work with a smile.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window