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Productivity Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“When I have business on hand I think it is better to have it done quickly.”
J.P. Morgan
Business
,
Efficiency
,
Decision
,
Action
,
Productivity
2.
“It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.”
John D. Rockefeller
Business
,
Efficiency
,
Productivity
,
Strategy
,
Success
3.
“I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.”
John D. Rockefeller
Work
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Productivity
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Society
,
Labor
,
Leadership
4.
“A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.”
John D. Rockefeller
Time
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Respect
,
Efficiency
,
Productivity
,
Value
5.
“The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.”
Andrew Carnegie
Knowledge
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Productivity
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Teamwork
,
Business
,
Leadership
6.
“Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.”
Guy Kawasaki
Efficiency
,
Productivity
,
Strategy
,
Impact
,
Business
7.
“I make myself a bowl of instant oatmeal, and then I don’t do anything for an hour. Why do I need the instant oatmeal? I could get the regular oatmeal and feel productive.”
Mitch Hedberg
Oatmeal
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Breakfast
,
Humor
,
Productivity
,
Time
8.
“Nothing beats the feeling of having done more in twenty-four hours than what the day expected you to!”
Ankur Warikoo
Productivity
,
Satisfaction
,
Effort
,
Achievement
,
Time
9.
“The more time you have to work on something, the more time you tend to waste before working on it.”
Ankur Warikoo
Time
,
Procrastination
,
Productivity
,
Urgency
,
Focus
10.
“Your to-do list doesn't matter, if you are not organized.”
Ankur Warikoo
Organization
,
Productivity
,
Tasks
,
Focus
,
Efficiency
11.
“Feeling guilty that you are not managing your time well, does not make you manage your time well.”
Ankur Warikoo
Guilt
,
Time
,
Productivity
,
Action
,
Self-discipline
12.
“Execution brings focus. Focus silences noise.”
Ankur Warikoo
Execution
,
Focus
,
Clarity
,
Productivity
,
Distraction
13.
“There is no point working hard if you have poor habits.”
Ankur Warikoo
Effort
,
Habits
,
Productivity
,
Discipline
,
Self-improvement
14.
“I’ve always had a strong bias towards action.”
Sam Walton
Action
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Bias
,
Initiative
,
Drive
,
Productivity
15.
“We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns, and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today – and will make possible tomorrow.”
Alvin Toffler
Urbanization
,
Productivity
,
Labor
,
Technology
,
Development
16.
“I work virtually every waking hour.”
Alvin Toffler
Work
,
Dedication
,
Effort
,
Productivity
,
Focus
17.
“If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.”
Jack Ma
Focus
,
Success
,
Strategy
,
Productivity
,
Decision-making
18.
“He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good.”
Plutarch
Occupation
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Priorities
,
Wisdom
,
Productivity
,
Purpose
19.
“Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons.”
Scott Adams
Work
,
Productivity
,
Humor
,
Efficiency
,
Bureaucracy
20.
“Stress is your body’s way of saying you haven’t worked enough unpaid overtime.”
Scott Adams
Stress
,
Work
,
Humor
,
Overwork
,
Productivity
21.
“Management is nature’s way of removing idiots from the productive flow.”
Scott Adams
Management
,
Productivity
,
Work
,
Humor
,
Leadership
22.
“Managing your personal energy is like managing budgets in a company.”
Scott Adams
Productivity
,
Energy
,
Efficiency
,
Strategy
,
Balance
23.
“The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.”
Scott Adams
Technology
,
Productivity
,
Work
,
Efficiency
,
Innovation
24.
“According to Dr. Andrew Huberman, you can hack your dopamine reward system by reframing your work today as essential to the kind of future you want. That gives you a reason to be happy every day. I call it preferring systems over goals. If you are following a good system, the reward is that you followed the system.”
Scott Adams
Dopamine
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Motivation
,
Productivity
,
Mindset
,
Success
25.
“Of course I don’t look busy, I did it right the first time.”
Scott Adams
Efficiency
,
Work
,
Humor
,
Productivity
,
Skill
26.
“I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.”
Scott Adams
Technology
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Internet
,
Productivity
,
Humor
,
Society
27.
“There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don’t let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it’s not like I’m just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.”
Scott Adams
Deadlines
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Time Management
,
Stress
,
Productivity
,
Planning
28.
“I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.”
Scott Adams
Vacation
,
Work
,
Productivity
,
Mindset
,
Balance
29.
“Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.”
Scott Adams
Blogging
,
Work
,
Independence
,
Productivity
,
Writing
30.
“I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don’t mind that my quality approaches zero.”
Scott Adams
Work
,
Productivity
,
Quality
,
Efficiency
,
Effort
31.
“Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.”
Thomas Merton
Ego
,
Productivity
,
Modern Life
,
Perception
,
Identity
32.
“The day is 24 hours; 6 hours we sleep, so you have left 18 hours. So don’t ever give me this thing “I’m working 12 hours so I don’t have time to exercise and to work out.” Or “I don’t have time to study another language” and all these kind of things. 18 hours; so utilize the 18 hours, that’s what I’ve always believed in, and I feel like that’s the only way you can get ahead.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Time Management
,
Hard Work
,
Productivity
,
Success
,
Discipline
33.
“I’m obsessed with packing in as much work as possible during each day, simply because there is only so much time you have in a lifetime. There is nothing better than to go home at night and know that you’ve done everything that you could do to accomplish your work.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Productivity
,
Hard Work
,
Success
,
Determination
,
Time Management
34.
“I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Focus
,
Multitasking
,
Determination
,
Discipline
,
Productivity
35.
“Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.”
Anton Chekhov
Talent
,
Achievement
,
Productivity
,
Creativity
,
Legacy
36.
“When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.”
Herbert Hoover
Meetings
,
Efficiency
,
Business
,
Time
,
Productivity
37.
“Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do.”
Seneca
Time
,
Purpose
,
Productivity
,
Reflection
,
Action
38.
“More active and commendable still is the person who is waiting for the daylight and intercepts the first rays of the sun; shame on him who lies in bed dozing when the sun is high in the sky, whose waking hours commence in the middle of the day.”
Seneca
Discipline
,
Action
,
Productivity
,
Time
,
Responsibility
39.
“It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.”
Seneca
Time
,
Productivity
,
Life
,
Priorities
,
Awareness
40.
“Finally, it is generally agreed that no activity can be successfully pursued by an individual who is preoccupied – not rhetoric or liberal studies – since the mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply, but rejects everything which is, to speak, crammed into it.”
Seneca
Focus
,
Learning
,
Productivity
,
Absorption
,
Concentration
41.
“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. The life we receive is not short but we make it so…”
Seneca
Time
,
Life
,
Productivity
,
Wisdom
,
Priorities
42.
“Stop overthinking. Put more energy into what you really want to do.”
Amit Ray
Overthinking
,
Energy
,
Focus
,
Action
,
Productivity
43.
“Our greatest strength lies in our skill to focus and channelize our energy for the right cause and not for scattered purposes.”
Amit Ray
Focus
,
Strength
,
Energy
,
Productivity
,
Life Purpose
44.
“Work never killed anyone. It’s worry that does the damage. And the worry would disappear if we’d just settle down and do the work.”
Earl Nightingale
Work Ethic
,
Worry
,
Productivity
,
Stress
,
Mental Health
45.
“Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.”
Earl Nightingale
Wealth
,
Economy
,
Exchange
,
Productivity
,
Financial Success
46.
“Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.”
Earl Nightingale
Creativity
,
Ideas
,
Innovation
,
Inspiration
,
Productivity
47.
“Do each day all that can be done that day. You don’t need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time.”
Earl Nightingale
Productivity
,
Efficiency
,
Balance
,
Focus
,
Time Management
48.
“When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.”
Earl Nightingale
Time
,
Productivity
,
Purpose
,
Energy
,
Life
49.
“Most people begin their day in neutral. They will simply react to whatever confronts them.”
Earl Nightingale
Routine
,
Mindset
,
Action
,
Productivity
,
Awareness
50.
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
Earl Nightingale
Persistence
,
Time
,
Overcoming Fear
,
Productivity
,
Determination
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