59 Quotes Tagged: productivity

Great things in business are never done by one person.They are done by a team of people

I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have.

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Most of my time is spent in doing as well as I can the work immediately at hand. One hopes that by doing quietly and without parade as solid work as one can when one is occupied, one makes the best contribution possible to one's state.

Mit Sport erhöht man die Produktivität

Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it.

Poor kids, through no fault of their own, are less prepared by their families, their schools, and their communities to develop their God-given talents as fully as rich kids. For economic productivity and growth, our country needs as much talent as we can find, and we certainly can’t afford to waste it. The opportunity gap imposes on all of us both real costs and what economists term “opportunity costs.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.” — John Cleese