I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.
Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.
If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.