A good manager strives to do the right thing. A good leader strives to do what is right. We are in a business where you can’t measure productivity by time.

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is...

We need space to be productive, we need places to go to be free.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US so great. That’s what freedom is all about.

what you don’t know will cost you.

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete.

Prior Planning Produces Positive Performance

I have a simple theory. If the Seahawks win on Sunday, productivity is going to go up.

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

I am sure I’d have made a better all-around man if I hadn’t lost so much time just making a living.

Mit Sport erhöht man die Produktivität

English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its...

The only thing better than being productive, is being reproductive.

The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether...

You don’t have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live–that productive work is the process by which man’s consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and...

How many seconds does it take to win second? As many as it takes to win first—if you don’t use them properly.

Productivity numbers on a quarter-to-quarter basis are very volatile. The downwardly revised second-quarter numbers could easily be revised upward in the third quarter.

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the...

Windows Server 2003 R2 builds on the proven reliability and security of Windows Server 2003 and introduces new functionality and benefits in key workloads and scenarios. R2 presents our customers with an array of new...

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

Meetings are at the heart of an effective organization, and each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set new directions, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move objectives forward.

If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.

Working hard doesn’t necessarily mean being productive, unless it is accompanied with an effective strategic plan of action.

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.

The productivity gains have been stunning.

harmony with nature”—there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature...

Without passion, a job is just what it is: a job

We always try to go out of our way to come out with cool and unique ways to show our employees they’re doing a good job. People loved them. Productivity is as high as it’s...

office”) using the following words: high-energy, collaborative, healthy, productive, engaging, innovative, interactive, high-tech, and regenerating.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot.

Life is like paper; you can throw it away or, you can make something out of it.

Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.

We continue to be long-term believers in the productivity enhancing benefits that technology brings to corporations and consumers and we’ve seen a tremendous adoption of technology over the last few years.

The enchanted day is only enchanted if we ourselves believe that anything is possible.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Stop talking, start DO-ing.

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

When the gain is greater than the pain, I’ll be there, telling you how we can both profit from your productivity. That’s what love is about.

You have the choice to either pray then plan or pray and wait; but keep in mind miracles are usually accessed somewhere between the 11th hour and resurrection.

Productivity suffered as a result of that.

It’s certainly good enough, right? [Then] I can take the other 95 percent of the time and invest it in something I really care about.

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.

20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

Reality always wins.