productivity Quotes

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a book, which I probably do two out of every three years, it's like having a second job. I squeeze in the hours when I can.

I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.