Quotes About Productivity

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

Hating hard work can get to be such an obsession that you won't let it pile up.

The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.

If our bodies aren't being taken care of then our work starts to suffer and we're not getting the most from our daily lives.

Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.

Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second class citizens within their own company.

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.

Work faster, smarter and harder

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

I think we should do meditation and yoga at work.

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.