Quotes About Productivity

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

If you have to be at work at 8, it's always like, 7:54. Just enough time to do nothing. To just lay there and go, "I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!

Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic.

Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

I'm such a workaholic. I'm always thinking about work.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.