Quotes About Productivity

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Speak little, do much.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

He who gains time gains everything.

We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.