Quotes about Productivity
Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
— Stephen Covey
I am always for the man who wishes to work.
— Abraham Lincoln
I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.
— Ernest Hemingway
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
— Ernest Hemingway
The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.
— Steven Pressfield
Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
— Steven Pressfield
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
— Albert Camus
The best and most abiding success is that which is made before eight o'clock in the morning.
— Napoleon Hill
FAITH is the strongest, and most productive of the emotions.
— Napoleon Hill
Spending too much time making "calls" instead of sales. A call is not an interview. An interview is not a sale.
— Napoleon Hill
It has many advantages, the main one being that it will often save from one to five years of time in reaching a chosen goal.
— Napoleon Hill