Quotes about Productivity

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about?

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution.

The fact that a piece of work is now being done by nine men which used to be done by ten men does not mean that the tenth man is unemployed. He is merely not employed on that work, and the public is not carrying the burden of his support by paying more than it ought on that work—for after all, it is the public that pays!

A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.