Productivity Quotes

"The key is in not spending time, but in investing it."

Stephen Covey

"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."

"The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time."

Matthew Hale

"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it."

Richard Whately

"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."

Ovid

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

C. Northcote Parkinson

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

Tim Ferriss

"Being busy does not always mean real work."

Thomas Edison

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

Henry Ford

"Lost time is never found again."

"It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?"

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

Dale Carnegie

"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment."

Thomas Edison

"Done is better than perfect."

Sheryl Sandberg

"Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it, in God's name!"

Thomas Carlyle

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."

Peter Drucker

"It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

Thomas Jefferson

“Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?”

“The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favour of holding meetings.”

“Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.”

“Never mistake activity for achievement.”

“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?”

“I've actually not read any books on time management.”

"Swallow a toad in the morning if you want to encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day."

Nicolas Chamfort