Quotes and sayings about Productivity

"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up"

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my ax"

"Out of clutter, find simplicity, from discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"

"The feeling of being productive comes not from the quantity of task we do, but from honoring the commit we set for our selves"

"In the productivity game we should take our leisure time as seriously as our work"

"Work when you're working rest when you're resting"

"For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as the latter has no end to it"

"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail"

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"

"Stop at the end of each day to analyze how well you used it. If you wasted time on things you didn't need to do, eliminate them tomorrow. Just imagine how much more efficient and effective you will be"

"Don’t fight forces; use them"

"Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard"

"Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience"

"You can do anything, but not everything"

"Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier"

"You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour"

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out"

"Learn as much by writing as by reading"

"Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can"

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten"

"You can’t improve anything if you can’t define it"

"The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important"

"The more you loose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have"

"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning and focused effort"

"Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things"

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all"

"To do two things at once is to do neither"

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could"

"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time"

"Adding motivation to experience produces excellence"

"One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now"

"The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities"

"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."

"I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."

"Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized"

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than - excellent work"

"The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost"

"Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down"

"Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game"