Quotes About Productivity

Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.

Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.

Leadership is all about getting results.

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.

No time for anything, little time for everything

Do not hire those who are incapable.Do not fire those who are capable.A small, devoted army is greaterthan a large, indifferent one.

Lead competently.Lead productively.Lead skillfully.Lead excellently.

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.

There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

One may sleep as long as one prefers, but one should know that each hour of excess sleep is an hour lost for learning.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

Live your life by the hour, not by the day. What will you achieve in the next hour?

Do nothing which is of no use.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

he de-bugged and de-moused the office ...

If you don't love yourself, and if you don't love what you do, then your productivity will be somewhere between mediocre and pathetic.