Quotes About Productivity

Si aprovechamos bien tan sólo el 20 % de nuestro tiempo, no nos quedaremos cortos.

And very profitable for LEK. The 'kids' were cheap. They worked long hours with no payment for overtime. We charged a lot for their work. Competitors didn't have our bottom-heavy staff structure, so couldn't imitate us economically.

In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all the unimportant opportunities. "The Apple Marketing Philosophy," 19771

80 percent of products, or customers or employees, are only contributing 20 percent of profits; that there is great waste; that the most powerful resources of the company are being held back by a majority of much less effective resources; that profits could be multiplied if more of the best sort of products could be sold, employees hired, or customers attracted (or convinced to buy more from the firm).

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

Poor school performance and productivity are temporary; motivation is permanent.

There's no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

Our lives may be more productive, but less inventive.

Television remains the most effective thief of time.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Treat your time as if someone is paying for it. Someone is.

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

This is a little dirty secret of mental health economics: if you're depressed, you don't think you're worth the cost of treatment. You feel guilty enough about being unproductive and unreliable.

Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we had more time...If you're good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower.

Procrastinators tend to buy self-help books about procrastination, then take them home, put them on a shelf, and never read them.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

Procrastination is the thief of dreams

efficiency is doing the job right, effectiveness is doing the right job.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Pierde una hora por la mañana y la estarás buscando todo el día

Unemployment was a relatively new phenomenon, an artifact of the rise of industrial America where large gains in productivity often came at the expense of economic security. The word unemployment took on its modern meaning of being without work and seeking a wage-paying job only within a dominant wage-labor system where the wageworkers lacked the opportunity to retreat to the countryside to engage in independent agricultural production during downturns.

Horne, J. A., & Minard, A. (1985). 'Sleep and Sleepiness Following a Behaviourally Active Day'. Ergonomics, 28, 567–75.

She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up.