1. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” ― Stephen Covey
2. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” ― Peter Drucker
3. “It is not enough to be busy… The question is: what are we busy about?” ~ Henry David Thoreau
4. “Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum.” ― Jeffrey Immelt
5. “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” ― David Allen
6. “If you are interested in balancing work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.” ― Donald Trump
7. “It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.” ― Tony Robbins
8. “There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.” ― Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
9. “Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” ― Caterina Fake
10. “Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions” ~ John Randolph
11. “It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom” ~ Aristotle
12. “Both good and bad days should end with productivity. You mood affairs should never influence your work.” ― Greg Evans
13. “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” ― Vince Lombardi
14. “Stressing output is the key to improving to productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.” ― Andrew Grove
15. “You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.” ― Les Brown
16. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin
17. “Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.” ― Delmore Schwartz
18. “The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.” ― Dennis Waitley
19. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing” ~ George Bernard Shaw
20. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” ― Alexander Graham Bell
21. “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” ~ Henry Ford
22. “The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.” ― Timothy Ferriss
23. “If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.” ― Elizabeth Grace Saunders
24. “Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.” ― Margaret Bonnano
25. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” ― Tim Ferriss
26. “It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.” ― Nathan W. Morris
27. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” ― Peter Drucker
28. “Don’t confuse the urgent with the important.” ― Preston Ni
29. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” ― Picasso
30. “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!” ~ Tony Robbins
31. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
32. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” ― Bruce Lee
33. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ― Coco Chanel
34. “When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
35. “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed” ~ Peter Drucker
36. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” ― Charles Darwin
37. “Life is too complicated not to be orderly.” ― Martha Stewart
38. “Why do anything unless it is going to be great?” ~ Peter Block
39. “Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.” ― Bruce Lee
40. “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” ― Herb Kelleher
41. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” ― Warren Buffett
42. “The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.” ― Thomas J. Watson
43. “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” ― David Allen
44. “The noblest search is the search for excellence.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson
45. “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” ― Paul J. Meyer
46. “Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.” ― Caleb C. Colton
47. “If there are nine rabbits on the ground, if you want to catch one, just focus on one.” ― Jack Ma
48. “Never mistake motion for action.” ― Ernest Hemingway
49. “The only way around is through.” ― Robert Frost
50. “Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.” ― Henry Ford
51. “Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.” ― Tom Hodgkinson