40 Powerful Productivity Quotes From Highly Successful People

Here are 40 powerful productivity quotes from highly successful people. Which one is your favorite?

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – Francis Of Assisi

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss them. – Lee Iacocca

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. – Plato

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. – Steve Jobs

People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have the talent and know-how to use it. – Frank Sinatra

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. – Oprah Winfrey

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night. – Michael Jordan

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? – William Shakespeare

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. – Oscar Wilde

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. – Muhammad Ali

Plans are nothing; planning is everything. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy

If you’re going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain

You can have everything in life you want if you will just help other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar

Learning never exhausts the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. - John D. Rockefeller

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. - Warren Buffett

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. - Sigmund Freud

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. - John Locke

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. - Colin Powell

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. - Coco Chanel

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. - Bertrand Russell

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. - Leonardo da Vinci

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, and on unselfish performance. Without them, it cannot live. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. – Zig Ziglar

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance. – Robert Quillen

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