Top 200 Productivity Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”

— Warren Buffett

152. “The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.”

— Mitchell Kapor

153. “Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.”

— Zig Ziglar

154. “Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.”

— Maria Popova

155. “Don't mistake activity with achievement.”

— John Wooden

156. “Good things come to those who hustle.”

— Chuck Noll

157. “Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.”

— Denzel Washington

158. “The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.”

— Steve Pavlina

159. “I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!”

— Eric Thomas

160. “Nowadays, business is all about productivity – and our folks produce.”

— John Hoeven

161. “What good shall I do this day?”

— Benjamin Franklin

162. “Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution.”

— Abdul Kalam

163. “Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.”

— Alan Greenspan

164. “Nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week.”

— Elon Musk

165. “Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.”

— Rudyard Kipling

166. “You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

167. “When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”

— Zig Ziglar

168. “Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.”

— John Wooden

169. “Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.”

— James Sinegal

170. “The real achiever does one thing at a time.”

— Peter F. Drucker

171. “It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.”

— Bill Gates

172. “Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.”

— Scott Adams

173. “Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.”

— Ronald Reagan

174. “My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.”

— Og Mandino

175. “In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the ’90s.”

— Bill Gates

176. “Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.”

— Harry S. Truman

177. “Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.”

— Charlie Munger

178. “Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser's excuse.”

— Farrah Gray

179. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t change it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

180. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

— Napoleon Hill

181. “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”

— Henry Ford

182. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

— Muhammad Ali

183. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

— Jim Rohn

184. “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

— Thomas Carlyle

185. “The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.”

— Walt Disney

186. “Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.”

— Charlie Munger

187. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

— Jim Rohn

188. “If it’s hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy.”

— Les Brown

189. “Done is better than perfect.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

190. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

— Jim Rohn

191. “Nothing will work unless you do.”

— Maya Angelou

192. “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

— Parkinson's law

193. “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

— Linus Torvalds

194. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

— Earl Nightingale

195. “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

— Bruce Lee

196. “Action is the foundational key to all success. ”

— Pablo Picasso