Quotes About Productivity

When you can't create you can work

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can't choose two out of three.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

By 1960 work will be limited to three hours a day.

The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.

I like to be organized, I like to stick to my schedule. That's how I stay focused.

My philosophy is that the digital revolution will make mankind happier and more productive, and that won't change over the next 300 years. If you don't stick to that original philosophy, even perfect control of a bunch of companies isn't going to do you any good.

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.

I'm a planner, an organizer. I write things down because you can visually check them off and see progress. Writing things down is a lost art. I've got sticky notes all over my apartment.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

In my view, the key aim of economic policy in many countries, and particularly in Russia, should be the sort of policy that stimulates productivity growth because only on the basis of growth of labour productivity can we enjoy healthy growth.

Those bearing the heavy responsibility of caring for captive gorillas should be encouraged to exchange so-called nonbreeders between populations, an inherent process among free-living gorillas and one that avoids inbreeding and also stimulates productivity.

Writing music while caffeinated produces some interesting results. The stimulation basically amplifies my music-production-dependent bi-polarity.

I like leaving things to the last possible minute, then letting blind panic be my stimulus.