Quotes about Productivity

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative.

[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.

Delegators love to pull people into meetings, too. In fact, meetings are a delegator's best friend. That's where he gets to seem important. Meanwhile, everyone else who attends is pulled away from getting real work done.

The longer something takes, the less likely it is that you're going to finish it.

Meaningful work, creative work, thoughtful work, important work—this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time to get into the zone. But in the modern office such long stretches just can't be found. Instead, it's just one interruption after another.

An owner unknowingly scattering people's attention is a common cause of the question "Why's everyone working so much but nothing's getting done?

Soon you'll see that it's the work—not the clock—that matters.

Forcing everyone into the office every day is an organizational SPoF.

Commuting isn't just bad for you, your relationships, and the environment—it's bad for business. And it doesn't have to be that way.