Quotes about Productivity
Success in the pulps depended on speed and imagination, and Hubbard had both in abundance. The church estimates that between 1934 and 1936, he was turning out a hundred thousand words of fiction a month. He was writing so fast that he began typing on a roll of butcher paper to save time. When a story was finished, he would tear off the sheet using a T-square and mail it to the publisher.
— Lawrence Wright
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
— John Maxwell
Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.
— Edith Stein
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
— St. Jerome
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
— Peter Drucker
Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.
— Winston Churchill
The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.
— Gordon Hinckley
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
— Charles Spurgeon
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
— Bill Gates
Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.
— David Ogilvy
Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
— Albert Einstein