Quotes About Productivity

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

What's measured improves

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

Leave enough time unscheduled; anyone in a decision-making position should, as a rule, schedule no more than half his time.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

It was always a puzzle, given that he spent his days achieving nothing, that he had no time for anything.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.

Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

The first servant came forward and said, ëMaster, your mina has produced ten more minas.í

Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.

For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.