Quotes About Productivity

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT INVEST IN BUSINESS.. THEY INVEST IN BUSY-NESS (They Purchase A Job)

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Business neglected is business lost.

If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.

Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.

Despatch is the soul of business.

It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.

Stay busy and take care of your own business.

There is no room for being creative in today's business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.