51 Down to Earth Productivity Quotes

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Rise early. Work late. Strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
American Industrialist
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The tragedy in life doesnt lie in not reaching
your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to
reach.
Benjamin Mays
American Educator, Scholar, Activist
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If you havent got the time to do it right, when
will you find the time to do it over?
Jeffrey J. Mayer
Author of Time Management for Dummies
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What comes first? The clock or the compass?
Anonymous
One of the best
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The productivity of work is not the
responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Peter F. Drucker
Management Consultant Author
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Mans greatest capital asset is the unexpired
years of his productive life.
Paul W. Litchfield
Ex Chairman, Goodyear Tire Rubber Co.
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when
you take your eyes off the goal.
Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motor Co.
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Productivity is being able to do things that you
were never able to do before.
Franz Kafka
German Writer
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We have a strategic plan. Its called doing
things.
Herb Kelleher
Chairman Emeritus, Southwest Airlines
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
4th Prime Minister of Israel
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You miss 100 of the shots you dont take.
Wayne Gretzky
Ice Hockey Player
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If there is no wind, row.
Latin Proverb
They knew stuff
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Take care of your minutes, and the hours will
take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
British Statesman
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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager if
it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.
Peter F. Drucker
Management Consultant Author
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If you spend too much time thinking about a
thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist Filmmaker
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Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest
of us just get up and go to work.
Stephen King
Science Fiction Fantasy Author
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell
'em, Certainly I can! Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
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The future is something which everyone reaches at
the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does,
whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
Irish Poet, Novelist Literary Critic
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to
another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Two Time Prime Minister of the UK
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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily
routine.
Mike Murdock
American Televangelist
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The simple act of paying positive attention to
people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Tom Peters
Management Author
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The person who says it cannot be done should not
interrupt the person who is doing it.
Chinese Proverb
They knew stuff
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It has been my observation that most people get
ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motor Co.
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The only place success comes before work is in
the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi
American Football Coach
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of
the day.
Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman Social Reformer
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You can never cross the ocean until you have the
courage to lose sight of the shore.
Cristopher Columbus
European Explorer, Navigator Colonizer
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The greatest oak was once a little nut that held
its ground.
Anonymous
One of the best
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People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is
not the measure of productivity.
Tim Ferris
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek
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Put your future in good hands your own.
Mark Victor Hansen
Co-Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul
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The key is in not spending time, but in investing
it.
Stephen Covey
American Author Keynote Speaker
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is
lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain
American Author Humorist
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Productivity is never an accident. It is always
the result of a commitment to excellence,
intelligent planning, and focused effort.
Paul J. Meyer
Motivational Speaker
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You cant use up creativity. The more you use,
the more you have.
Maya Angelou
American Author Poet
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Coffee is the way I fool myself into believing
I'm going to have a productive day.
Anonymous
One of the best
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Its kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
American Animator Film Producer
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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done
it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Essayist, Lecturer Poet
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a
fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
English Writer, Moralist Literary Critic
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao Tzu
Chinese Philosopher
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Time stays long enough for those who use it.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance Polymath
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A year from now you will wish you had started
today.
Karen Lamb
Author
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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
Jim Rohn
American Author Entrepreneur
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it
is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
American Inventor Businessman
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Jean de La Fontaine
By the work one knows the workman.
French Fabulist Poet
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There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
Roger Staubach
Former NFL Quarterback
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Confidence is the result of hours and days and
weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
Roger Staubach
Former NFL Quarterback
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If you have time to whine and complain about
something then you have the time to do something
about it.
Anthony J. DAngelo
American Author Educator
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of
all achievement.
W. Clement Stone
American Businessman Philanthropist
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Inspiration exists, but it must find you working.
Pablo Picasso
Spanish Painter Sculptor
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Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do
today.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and
importance, and should be undertaken with
painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Clergyman, Activist Civil Leader
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Simplicity boils down to two steps Identify the
essential. Eliminate the rest.
Leo Babauta
Creator of Zen Habits
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