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Never mistake motion for action.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

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

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

Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

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.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

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

I believe that capitalism, at least how it’s used by major corporations, and environmental concerns are in opposition. To be ecologically aware, productivity of many things would slow down at least for awhile. Stockholders don’t want to hear about the saving of the whales or some stream in Kentucky. They want a return on their investment.

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

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

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

In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.

It’s the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy.

It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

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.