Quotes about Productivity

The fact that a piece of work is now being done by nine men which used to be done by ten men does not mean that the tenth man is unemployed. He is merely not employed on that work, and the public is not carrying the burden of his support by paying more than it ought on that work—for after all, it is the public that pays!

I like to be productive - it's very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I'm losing time.

A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.