Quotes About Productivity

IT'S THE JOB THAT IS NEVER STARTED THAT TAKES THE LONGEST TO FINISH.

The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Parkinson's Law: If you have only one letter to write, it will take all day to do it. If you have twenty letters to write, you'll get them done in one day.

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation of success.

Lazy people don't succeed.

La concentración dividida siempre trabaja en forma negativa.

The atmosphere is affirming: Industrialist Charles Schwab said, "I have yet to find the man . . . who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Muy a menudo los empleados esperan ser evaluados en base al esfuerzo que están poniendo en el trabajo, en vez de lo que están logrando.

Yo debo gobernar el reloj, no ser gobernada por él". —Golda Meir

Thomas Jefferson said, "It's wonderful how much can be done if we are always working.

Many people fail to make a difference because they are so busy. They

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success. It's Not How Hard You Work; It's How Smart You Work

Motivated employees are 87 percent less likely to leave an organization compared to an unmotivated employee." —BILL HYBELS

If you want to be productive, you should try to learn to get joy from what gives the greatest return and discipline yourself to do those things.

Most people produce only when they feel like it. Leaders produce even when they don't feel like it.

Nothing speaks like results.

Time is valuable. Psychiatrist and author M. Scott Peck said, "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Durante veintiún días, escribió casi sin parar. Luego pasó otros dos días trabajando en la orquestación. En veinticuatro días, completó el manuscrito de doscientos sesenta páginas. Llamó a esa obra El Mesías.

Novelist Victor Hugo believed, He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life . . . But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

La razón por la cual las grandes metas no se consiguen es porque nos pasamos el tiempo haciendo primero las cosas secundarias»

Before you get out of bed every morning, say 'do it now' fifty times. At the end of the day before you go to sleep, the last thing you should do is say 'do it now' fifty times.

All great leaders are productive. However, it is possible to be a producer and not a leader. Personal success does not always translate into team success. Leadership is defined by what a person does with and for others. It is established by making the team better and more productive. It's measured by what the entire group accomplishes, not by the individual efforts of the person in charge. Good leadership is never based on what someone does by and for himself.

Prioritize the things that yield high return. What's the key to being productive? Prioritizing. To be an effective leader, you must learn to not only get a lot done, but to get a lot of the right things done. That means understanding how to prioritize time, tasks, resources, and even people. Effective prioritizing begins with eliminating the things you shouldn't be doing.

How does a person become productive? Find your strength and then find someone who needs your strength.