Top 200 Productivity Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus.”

— Robin S. Sharma

52. “You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.”

— Jim Rohn

53. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

— Stephen R. Covey

54. “Well done is better than well said.”

— Benjamin Franklin

55. “If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”

— Steve Jobs

56. “Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.”

— Zig Ziglar

57. “Some day I won’t be able to do this. The right time is now.”

— Casey Neistat

58. “The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.”

— Robin S. Sharma

59. “Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.”

— Gary W. Keller

60. “You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback, particularly from friends.”

— Elon Musk

61. “The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”

— Brian Tracy

62. “I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.”

— Paul Theroux

63. “Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.”

— Robin S. Sharma

64. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

— Zig Ziglar

65. “Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.”

— Tim Ferriss

66. “Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to “make things” work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.”

— Grant Cardone

67. “People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.”

— Elon Musk

68. “Make today worth remembering.”

— Zig Ziglar

69. “This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”

— Neil Gaiman

70. “Channel your energy. Focus.”

— Carl Lewis

71. “People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.”

— John Maeda

72. “Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

73. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

— Harry S. Truman

74. “What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

— Gary W. Keller

75. “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

76. “Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.”

— Hamilton Holt

77. “You can’t hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.”

— Zig Ziglar

78. “I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.”

— Elon Musk

79. “Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”

— Henry Ford

80. “Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.”

— Marie Forleo

81. “Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.”

— Peter F. Drucker

82. “Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”

— Henry Ford

83. “Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.”

— Mason Cooley

84. “The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work.”

— William E. Conway, Jr.

85. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

86. “Some of you love sleep more than you love success. If you want to be successful, you gotta be willing to give up sleep. If you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

87. “Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.”

— Brian Tracy

88. “You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.”

— Elon Musk

89. “Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.”

— W. Edwards Deming

90. “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.”

— Les Brown

91. “Never confuse activity with productivity.”

— Rick Warren

92. “Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.”

— Kevin Systrom

93. “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

— Jack London

94. “If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.”

— Zig Ziglar

95. “Greatness is a lot of small things done well.”

— Eric Thomas

96. “Join The 5 am Club. Your most valuable hours are 5am-8am. They have the least interruptions.”

— Robin S. Sharma

97. “You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.”

— Abdul Kalam

98. “Don’t let your want for perfection become procrastination.”

— Danielle LaPorte

99. “Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.”

— Brian Tracy

100. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”

— Stephen R. Covey