As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.
If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?
It's the coolest thing - showing young, bright, and creative people that compassion and a compassionate life is the richest way to live. When you live that life, you create progress, productivity, and innovation.
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater responsibility sharing. . . Trade unions in this country should. . . consider these arrangements much more carefully than they have up to now. . . Expanded employee profit participation and stock ownership would provide workers with a greater measure of economic and social independence, thus stimulating increased productivity.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Creativity produces productivity.
We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.
When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the second world war and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.
What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.
Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
Best productivity tool ever invented? Easy. . . the word "no".
The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.
To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.
Activity leads to productivity!
Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.
The sofa is the enemy of productivity.
Consider everything an experiment.