Quotes about Productivity

Recreation Is Essential to Best Work—The time spent in physical exercise is not lost.... A proportionate exercise of all the organs and faculties of the body is essential to the best work of each. When the brain is constantly taxed while the other organs of the living machinery are inactive, there is a loss of strength, physical and mental.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

People pulling 16-hour days on a regular basis are exhausted. They're just too tired to notice that their work has suffered because of it.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

A leisurely pace accomplishes more than hurried striving.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.

I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hopes and plans.

As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.

If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.

When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen.

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.