Quotes About Productivity

Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better.

By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

Entrepreneur, become so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

Most of my work is done when everyone else is asleep.

I love feeling exhausted after a good, hard, honest day's work.

I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people.

I don't edit on laptops anymore.

I'm not a late-night guy.

If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

I can get really lazy.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.