Quotes About Productivity

Do not constantly spend your time complaining about a problem you may be having or may be up against, focus your time toward correcting the problem. Always remember, Time is value!

Time is Money, I am No Ones Honey, Trust Me. I can Make It Dollars Every Second.

A great chunk of our lives is wasted on thoughts that bring nothing. We all think about something but, in the end, we only close the day thinking a lot and doing nothing but little.

Hurry up! Do it – get it done. You got work to do. Don't put this off and don't take the long view. Life is today and tomorrow, and if you are lucky, may be next week.

Procrastination at the start and sometimes during the project meant there wasn't time to execute the plans well enough.

Time is your most valuable currency!

True efficiency is taking some time to be fully first thing in the morning. Rushing isn't always efficient.

I believe in the 20/80 rule. That's where working an extra 20% faster, harder, or smarter gets you an extra 80% of the rewards.

at least in IBM's case, when it honored and nurtured its sales force and its sales culture, it was productive and successful. That statement may sound incredibly obvious. When their values prevailed, IBM did well. But beginning shortly after the new millennium, they did not always prevail. IBM, like many other corporations, in recent years has relied increasingly on what came to be known as "financial engineering" to improve performance. It was never enough to ensure success.

Don't worry; work!

Studying for 30-50 minutes at a time (with 10 minute breaks in between) is the most effective way to retain information.

For all they have the means of faster travel, faster communication, faster just about everything, they seem to have less time.

In a clean, uncluttered room, you can think, you can be your true self. It's the same with worries & anxieties, keep them under wraps, and you're free to excel in activity that matters.

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

Someday is not a day of the week.

Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.

Employees producing mediocre returns for owners should expect their pay to reflect this shortfall

You can't rush your muse. They don't punch time clocks.

Doing things is not the same as getting things done.

[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.

What's worse is that long hours, excessive busyness, and lack of sleep have become a badge of honor for many people these days. Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it's a mark of stupidity.

you can't let your employees work from home out of fear they'll slack off without your supervision, you're a babysitter, not a manager. Remote work is very likely the least of your problems.

That's the great irony of letting passionate people work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry about his workers not getting enough work done, but the real threat is that too much will likely get done. And because the manager isn't sitting across from his worker anymore, he can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.