Never mistake motion for action.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. If you’re growing customer satisfaction, your global market share is sure to grow, too. Employee satisfaction gets you productivity, quality, pride, and creativity. And cash flow is the pulse—the key vital sign of a company.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy: it keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.

The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that in order to progress we must stretch for something just out of reach–if only for a life that will be more compassionate and decent than the cruelty, paranoia, greed, narrow corporatism, or narcissism we mostly indulge in and find such ample justification for. And so we dream.

Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.

Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that’s my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized.

Success equals goals; all else is commentary

The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Never confuse motion with action.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.

Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming, . . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded ‘the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world’ . . . it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control.

We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today – and will make possible tomorrow.

Faith doesn’t mean that you don’t have doubts.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

You may delay, but time will not.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don’t, you won’t.