Productivity Quotes

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased...

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to ge...

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with ol...

Not being aware of all you have to do is much like having a credit card for which you don't know the...

Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the righ...

Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and a...

Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to...

At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, wit...

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it

When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. A...

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am theref...

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get thin...

I'll be living quietly in a house somewhere in the suburbs, enjoying a peaceful existence not writin...

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which w...

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem...

It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a...

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that f...

The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for...

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time ex...

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important...

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their...

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not bei...

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing e...

If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capi...

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, ...

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised t...

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised t...

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised t...

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised t...

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised t...

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised t...

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised t...

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised t...

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuff...

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Great things in business are never done by one person.They are done by a team of people

Great things in business are never done by one person,They are done by a team of people

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out ...

I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a f...

Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divi...

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-...

Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and plea...

...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, a...

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature ...