Workplace Productivity Quotes

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.

I wake up at 4:15 A.M., get some coffee, turn on the news, see what's happening, go clickety-clack on the web to see what I missed overnight. Then I go to the gym, around 5:15, and I do what appears to be a very light workout, but who cares. I'm socializing with other nice people at the gym. Then I go into work, and I'm really awake.

I don't read work emails after 7 P.M. or on weekends.

A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.

The most important thing is work.

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.

I never take my work home with me, because when there is a baby in the bath at home, and you rush back for bath-time, as soon as you get through the door, you know that work is work and home is home.

I work all the time, and I'm basically in the office from the time I wake up and then working until I go to sleep every day.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

Once you explore life outside of work, it becomes addictive. The less you work, the less you want to work. At first, the odd afternoon off seems like a fantastic luxury. Before long, you are opting for a four-day week. Then a four-day week becomes an intolerable demand on your time, so you find a way of moving to a three-day week.

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch.

We all know the place you're in has a big impact on how you feel. How you feel has an impact on the quality of work. Why wouldn't we put a lot of effort into making the place we work as efficient and productive and pleasant as possible?

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.

Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.

It's very important to have a good group of people that get along well, where the people come in to work and do it in a happy way, that they enjoy being at the club.

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.

Time is money, and the more breaks given, the less money that is made.