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Quotes About Productivity

Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.
~ Steve Jobs
Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."
~ James Surowiecki
I have a great office.
~ R. L. Stine
I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.
~ Laurence Fox
The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.
~ Jaron Lanier
You have to have great design to be competitive in today's markets.
~ John Doerr
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
~ Dale Carnegie
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
~ Sir Theodore Martin
Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.
~ Sarah Bernhardt
The happy people are those who are producing something.
~ William Ralph Inge
The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
~ William Feather
Happiness is activity.
~ Aristotle
If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out to lunch there would be more happiness in the world and less indigestion.
~ Charles M. Schwab
If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.
~ Donna Tartt
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
~ Anonymous
To be busy is man's only happiness.
~ Mark Twain
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
~ Colette
Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
~ Seneca the Younger
Happiness inspires productivity.
~ Shawn Achor
Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
~ Thomas a Kempis
To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.
~ Frederick Lenz
Life without absorbing occupation is hell.
~ Elbert Hubbard