Quotes About Productivity

Notice, there was a man who was once real and alive and in love. But after a series of blows, his humanity was reduced to efficiency. He became a sort of machine—a hollow man. At first he did not even notice, for his condition made him an excellent woodman, as any person can become productive like a machine when he forgoes his heart.

The business world—where the majority of American men live and die—requires a man to be efficient and punctual. Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

Every dollar released from taxation, that is spent or invested, will create a new job and a new salary.

Questions that begin with "When" lead to procrastination.

Putting things off means precious time is lost. Productivity suffers.

A client once said: "Long-range, strategic planning is a great tool, but we need to get some things done before lunch!

Procrastination also increases stress. As things pile up, we begin to feel overwhelmed, which takes the joy out of our work. Bottom line: Procrastination is costly to all involved.

Mordecai was not one to worry about the things he couldn't change. His desk was covered with the battles he could win.

Empezarás trabajando mucho y a todas horas, pero no podrás hacerlo eternamente. De modo que comenzarás a descubrir atajos. Créeme, Mitch, cuando lleves un año con nosotros sabrás cómo trabajar diez horas y facturar el doble. Es una especie de sexto sentido que adquirimos los abogados. —

worked four thousand hours but billed only three thousand.

Once she was settled and rested, she would plunge into her work and average at least a thousand words a day.

Each exam took twenty minutes, so they did three per hour, about twenty-five each day, six days a week.

Perhaps I'd be happier if I had a boring job like Filly, but then I wouldn't have any time to myself. I waste so much time and then I resent it when I don't have time to waste.

The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and begin to look for excitement in less productive places.

One thing you learn as you get older: the secret to a happy work life is finding a desk chair you can live with.

I have taken to arriving at the office one hour later than I am expected. Therefore, I am far more rested and refreshed when I do arrive, and I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.

When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip. ? John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

One does not fire or sack higher-income personnel; in the interest of greater efficiency, they are only shed.

You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.

This decade holds many changes for the United States, but the greatest needs regarding America's productivity in the 1990s, are better education and employee training.

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.