Quotes About Productivity

Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

I would rather be working than be on vacation. Always.

Taking a vacation can actually increase the likelihood of getting a raise or a promotion.

If I'm going on vacation, I just work ahead.

I didn't do anything productive during my break after 'Dream Girl.' I didn't even take a vacation!

I like to be productive - it's very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I'm losing time.

I am opposed to vacations and leisure. I try to make every day a work day. Even if there's nothing on my schedule, I will try do at least one task that is work-related.

Smart vacations lead to greater happiness and energy at work and, therefore, greater productivity, intelligence, and resilience.

The cost of the vaccine is truly minuscule when you think about the benefits you're getting from an opportunity-cost standpoint. If you're going to miss several days of work - and you will - with high fevers, body aches, nausea, and vomiting... you're going to be losing out on a lot more money and productivity if you don't get the flu shot.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.

Every weekday morning, I picture my first paragraph while I hike with my dog Milo near Mulholland Drive, looking out over the San Fernando Valley. I edit the paragraph, then memorize it, so that when I get back home and sit down at my computer, the blank screen's tyranny lasts only a second or two. A brief reign!

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.

I believe that agriculture land - productive agricultural land with water on site - will be valuable in the future.

Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.

The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.

A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

When you're that comfortable with your own product, with your own work rate - so to speak - that's when you become valuable. That's when people start vying for you, to ply your trade in their wrestling match.

As entrepreneurs, we already know our most valuable asset is time, but not every entrepreneur knows how to properly use that time.

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.

The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.

Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way

A great work ethic isn't about working whenever you're called upon. It's about doing what you say you're going to do, putting in a fair day's work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.