Quotes about Productivity

What distinguishes people who are ten times more effective than the norm is not that they work ten times as hard; it's that they use their creativity to come up with solutions that require one-tenth of the effort.

With a small team, you need people who are going to do work, not delegate work. Everyone's got to be producing. No one can be above the work.

Most people suffering from a lack of motivation will blame themselves first. "Ah, it's because I'm such a procrastinator!" "Why can't I just get myself together?" The truth, more often than not, is that you are not the problem; it's the world you're working in.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

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

Did you know there's a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy - running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything - is the same as wasting your time? It's frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

If we sleep more than is needful for the refreshment of the body, it is wasting the time with which the Lord has entrusted us as a talent, to be used for his glory, for our own benefit, and the benefit of the saints and the unbelievers around us.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

My BlackBerry is essential to my survival.

I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.