Quotes About Productivity

I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

I had to create some good work habits and attitude.

He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.

Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.

I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M.

I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.

Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.

Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

It's time for all Americans to get off of welfare and get back to work. You're going to love it!

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.

Remember, it goes beyond reducing WIP. Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

I never work hard when I am working; I only work hard when I am not working.

I'm not really that hard-working. We've hung out a lot, and you know that I don't work harder than you. Everyone else is just really lazy. People do half a thing, and then they just go out to lunch.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

We all know that working out reduces stress, but it's equally true that stressing out reduces work.