51 down to earth productivity quotes
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Getting up for a hard day's work is easy, but making that day productive can be difficult. To help inspire you, we've gathered 51 quotes from influential people throughout history.TRANSCRIPT
Rise early. Work late. Strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
American Industrialist
The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin Mays
American Educator, Scholar, Activist
If you haven’t 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
What comes first? The clock or the compass?
Anonymous
One of the best
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Peter F. Drucker
Management Consultant & Author
Man’s greatest capital asset is the unexpired years of his productive life.
Paul W. Litchfield
Ex Chairman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motor Co.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Franz Kafka
German Writer
We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.
Herb Kelleher
Chairman Emeritus, Southwest Airlines
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
4th Prime Minister of Israel
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky
Ice Hockey Player
If there is no wind, row.
Latin Proverb
They knew stuff
Take care of your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
British Statesman
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; if it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.
Peter F. Drucker
Management Consultant & Author
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist & Filmmaker
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Stephen King
Science Fiction & Fantasy Author
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
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
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
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
Mike Murdock
American Televangelist
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Tom Peters
Management Author
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Chinese Proverb
They knew stuff
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motor Co.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi
American Football Coach
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman & Social Reformer
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Cristopher Columbus
European Explorer, Navigator & Colonizer
The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground.
Anonymous
One of the best
People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.
Tim Ferris
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek
Put your future in good hands – your own.
Mark Victor Hansen
Co-Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul
Stephen Covey
American Author & Keynote Speaker
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain
American Author & Humorist
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
Maya Angelou
American Author & Poet
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Coffee is the way I fool myself into believing I'm going to have a productive day.
Anonymous
One of the best
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
American Animator & Film Producer
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Essayist, Lecturer & Poet
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
English Writer, Moralist & Literary Critic
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao Tzu
Chinese Philosopher
Time stays long enough for those who use it.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance Polymath
A year from now you will wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb
Author
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
Jim Rohn
American Author & Entrepreneur
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
American Inventor & Businessman
By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine
French Fabulist & Poet
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
Roger Staubach
Former NFL Quarterback
Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
Roger Staubach
Former NFL Quarterback
If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
American Author & Educator
W. Clement Stone
American Businessman & Philanthropist
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
Pablo Picasso
Spanish Painter & Sculptor
Inspiration exists, but it must find you working.
Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
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
Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.
Leo Babauta
Creator of Zen Habits