Quotes About Productivity

Learning requires inefficiency. Businesses, which seek to maximize productivity and profit, would rarely, if ever, accept such a trade-off.

There needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to sit idly in the garden.

The more you multitask, the less deliberative you become; the less able to think and reason out a problem.

Women's empowerment helps raise economic productivity and reduce infant mortality. It contributes to improved health and nutrition. It increases the chances of education for the next generation.

Since the end of the twentieth century, the United States has witnessed an ominous and growing divergence among three trends that should ordinarily move together: wealth, output, and employment.

There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work. There are those who stop so they can work. Working is the why of work.

See, I'm not trying to write. It just comes out when it comes out. So there is no block! Like, I'm not sitting down, going [frantically], "Oh my God, I've got to write a song! I really, really have to … Oh my God!" Hey, if I don't write a song, I don't record a song. Hell, it just gives me more time to do other things.

Talent is putting skills into productive use.

Procrastination is self-induced torture, often void of physical agony. It still hurts.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Whatever keeps you from reaching your goals today had better be important - it's costing you a day of your life!

The key to scheduling your time is to focus on objectives, not on activities.

The problem as he saw it was not how short our lives are, but rather how badly most of us use what time we have.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

Nunca me esfuerzo en hacer algo que no me apetezca. Si me atasco hago otra cosa.

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.

the average Russian peasant remains active and willing (rather than lazy) only so long as he wears a shirt and a peasant's smock; but that as soon as ever he finds himself put into a German tailcoat, he becomes awkward, sluggish, indolent, disinclined to change his vest or take a bath, fond of sleeping in his clothes, and certain to breed fleas and bugs under the German apparel.

One of my favorite things to tell people when I'm coaching them, is every great executive I've ever known has almost unlimited free time. The most incredible thing someone can learn is how to build that time. If a meeting can be done in five minutes there is no reason to take 15 minutes. I have learned through experience how to prioritize tasks and analyze what needs to be addressed first.

When you're a one man show, you have to focus on the most important thing to get done today.

To rise at six, dine at ten, Sup at five, to bed at ten, Makes man live ten times ten.

Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

Work is more fun than fun.

Procrastination is the enemy of time and results in lost opportunity.