Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do. Read Summary
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. Read Summary
The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become. Read Summary
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. Read Summary
If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine. Read Summary
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. Read Summary
Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation. Read Summary
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. Read Summary
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. Read Summary
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. Read Summary
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Read Summary
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Read Summary
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. Read Summary
I pay attention to every minute of the day. Read Summary
I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time. Read Summary
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life. Read Summary
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. Read Summary
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. Read Summary
Check-ins are cool, but kind of a pain. Read Summary
What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire. Read Summary