Productivity Quotes

There is a big difference between being busy and being productive. Regardless of how busy one is, one's success can only come from relentless productivity.

~ Hafiz

Success is always the final outcome when one adopts the habit of embracing each day with a high level of enthusiasm and productivity.

~ Hafiz

Working hard doesn't necessarily mean being productive, unless it is accompanied with an effective strategic plan of action.

~ Hafiz

There is always a priceless feeling that comes with going to sleep at night knowing that you did your very best on the tasks that you set for the day. Fears, doubts, and procrastinations are the enemies of your true destiny.

~ Hafiz

Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there’s no glamorous work. You don’t get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.

~ Jason Fried

You will boost your productivity with active exercise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A system is only as effective as your level of commitment to it.

~ Audrey Moralez

My philosophy of life: “Don’t just sit around doing nothing and wasting your time—get off your butt and start doing something and wasting your time.

~ Clifford Cohen

It takes time, patience, productivity and persistence to 'pop the oil'; just keep digging. Worthy investments take time to show positive returns.

~ T.f. Hodge

Youth is an unpleasant period, for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential, productivity becomes obsolete.

~ Marston James

You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can’t perform.

~ Richie Norton

...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

~ Brian Tracy

However, by Sunday noon--not coincidentally, the unhappiest hour in America--you may have run through your options and wind up slumped on a couch, suffering from the Sabbath existential crisis. It's at just such unfocused, unproductive times, says Csikszentmihalyi, that people start ruminating and feeling that their lives are wasted and so forth.

~ Winifred Gallagher

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 out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.

~ Joshua Foer

Secret to Productivity is single tasking: Focus only on one task at hand. And don't start another till that one is completely done

~ Vivek Naik

Where your attention goes, your time goes

~ Idowu Koyenikan

Therefore, to maximize your productivity, deliberately focus on precisely one thing at a time.

~ Oran Kangas

It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.

~ Nathan W. Morris

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.

~ Henry Hazlitt

I understand that SPEED is an indispensable quality but I discovered lately that WAITING also works most times with even better results.

~ Amos Gideon Buba

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

~ Walter Brueggemann

A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.

~ John Stahl-Wert

As a CEO, how do you know you are investing in technology that supports productivity?

~ Shawn Casemore

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

... In a ROWE* people don't have schedules.They show up when they want.They don't have to be in the office at certain time, or anytime.They just have to get their work done.How they do it ?When they do it ?Where they do it ?It's totally up to them.Meetings & this kind of environments are Optional.What happens ... ?Almost across the board !- Productivity goes up- Worker Engagement goes up- Worker Satisfaction goes up- Turnovers goes down- Autonomy .. Mastery .. Purpose -these are the building blocks of new way of doing things.______________________________________________________________*ROWE: results-only work environment

~ Daniel H. Pink

Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life's gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Fitness determines productivity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done.

~ Will Schwalbe

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion.

~ Sarah Dessen

Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.

~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which will make possible an equal development worthy of human beings for all members of society. All earlier forms of society were too poor for this.

~ Friedrich Engels

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

~ Michael Grant

My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.

~ Francine Jay

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

~ Peter Block

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

~ Tom Peters

With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets.

~ Nabil Sabio Azadi

I want to know how good at life I can be in a place where there are no distractions.

~ Nell Stevens