Quotes About Productivity

Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.

People should not expect to eat if they did not work.

Interestingly, people often boast that they are hard workers not understanding that hardworking means spending a lot of time and energy on work.

Working smart is harder than working hard. It's just less visible, and we care too much about what others see.

Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.

Most people overestimate what they can do in a month and underestimate what they can do in an hour.

Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to list.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Love of bustle is not industry.

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.

Work is more fun than fun.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

If a man will not work he shall not eat.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.

Work! Thank God for the swing of it for the clamoring hammering ring of it.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work-their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating rejuvenating exciting and satisfying.

It's all in the day's work.

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.