Quotes About Productivity

I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.

Dr. Shingo defines process as "a flow by which an object is transformed from raw material into finished product," as opposed to operations which is "the flow of tasks performed by human workers on products," the focus needs to be on improving processes and not operations

The Harada Method is the Human Side of Lean.

Kohei Goshi, the 81 year old founder of the Japan Productivity Center, our host in Japan, said, "Americans are very good at inventing, but we may be better at raising a baby.

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how".

The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair. (ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!)

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

Our theory," explained Fried, "is that we'll see better results when people have a long stretch of uninterrupted time.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.

When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.

Successful people work hard on the right things b/c working hard on the wrong things only makes one worn out while failing.

No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Poverty has many dimensions, but its causes include unemployment, social exclusion, and high vulnerability of certain populations to disasters, diseases and other phenomena which prevent them from being productive.

So little time and so little to do.