the most productive people are the ones who strike a balance between the two extremes, who understand the power of capturing and organizing what they have to get done, but who also don’t sacrifice real work in favor of being productive about productivity.

What separates the most productive people from everyone else is that they make course corrections every week to gradually get better at everything they do.

The most productive people work at a pace somewhere between the monk and the stock trader — fast enough to get everything done, and slowly enough so they can identify what’s important and then work deliberately and with intention.

People who consistently succeed are those who can commit all of their resources, mental and physical, to work together toward achieving a task.

It then follows that finding something important and meaningful in your life is perhaps the most productive use of your time and energy. Because if you don’t find that meaningful something, your fucks will be given to meaningless and frivolous causes.

that people who produce outstanding results think this way.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values — carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

The secret to being productive is to work on the right thing—even if it's at a slow pace.

I believe the people who are most successful are those committed to bringing out the best in other people through awakening & empowerment.

In an older society with few resources and mechanical work, the scheduled life is the most productive.

In a modern society with permissionless leverage and creative work, the unscheduled life is the most productive.

Productivity is about how much you accomplish.

People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day.

The people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.