Productivity Quotes

355 Productivity quotes by 275 unique authors

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt… — Charles Caleb Colton
I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives. — Nadia Comaneci
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. — Stephen Covey
Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by… — Sloane Crosley
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. — Peter Drucker
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. — Peter Drucker
There's a way to do it better - find it. — Thomas A. Edison
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and… — Larry Elder
The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity. — Tim Ferriss
I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation.… — Tim Ferriss
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure… — Joshua Foer
Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative… — Tom Hodgkinson
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill… — Tom Hodgkinson
A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity… — Tim Holden
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. — Franz Kafka
Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales. — Daniel Kahneman
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in… — John F. Kerry
It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed.… — Jeffrey Kluger
I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement. — Jeffrey Kluger
Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss,… — Madeleine M. Kunin
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all… — Shia LaBeouf
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. — Bruce Lee
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. — Bruce Lee
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. — Sam Levenson

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