67 Productivity Quotes To Be More Effective

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page.

Here are 67 of the best productivity quotes that will 10X your productivity.

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In sum,

I’ve learned to be highly productive over the years. And you can learn it too.

This article is one of the most important articles I’ve created.

Why?

Your ability to produce at a high rate, consistently, can bring you into the top %1 of your field.

You’ll discover the best thoughts from the most successful people in the world (Einstein, Gary Keller, James Clear, Jeff Bezos, and more).

Enjoy!

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Stephen Covey

Productivity is more the product of focus than time. Mark Manson

The secret to being productive is to work on the right thing — even if it’s at a slow pace. James Clear (Source)

Productivity is the art of subtraction. Josh Spector

Ruthlessly protect your time. Anthony Pompliano

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The greatest productivity hack is the willingness to turn people down. Mark Manson

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all. Peter Drucker

If you did 4 hours of focused work every day you’d be ahead of 99% of people who multitask for 8 hours. Dan Go

Do less. Keep returning to one thing and continue to refine it. James Clear

Extraordinary results deemed that you set a priority and act on it. Gary Keller

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The most important habit is saying no. Shane Parrish (Source)

Until your one thing is done – everything else is a distraction. Gary Keller

Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right. Gary Keller

Choosing the priority is as important as working on it. James Clear

Stop seeking gratification and you’ll start doing the right things. Maxime Lagacé

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Productivity isn’t about working nonstop, it’s about being smarter with how you allocate your time. Thibaut

No telephones, no responsibilities, absolute tranquility…I am lying on the shore like a crocodile, allowing myself to be roasted by the sun, never see a newspaper, and do not give a hoot about the so-called world. Albert Einstein

Keep in mind that besides the eight hours of work, each day also has eight hours for fooling around, and then there’s also Sunday. Albert Einstein

In the long-run, prioritization beats efficiency. James Clear

Productivity: the art of doing the highest impact thing, consistently. Maxime Lagacé

Time spent has nothing to do with job done. Naval Ravikant

What is the highest leverage action I can execute on right now? James Clear

The price of productivity is creativity. Naval Ravikant

Those who only know what they do, work harder. Those who know why they do what they do, work smarter. Simon Sinek

How you should spend your time: Say no to everything. Delete emails without responding and without flinching. Walking meetings only. Keep meetings short. Ask people to do it by email and text instead. Naval Ravikant

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. Benjamin Franklin

Prioritize that which compounds. Jack Butcher

Find the 20% that matters and execute like hell. Justin Welsh

The most effective people have filtering mechanisms that allow them to quickly sift through the noise and zero in on what matters. Shane Parrish (Source)

A happy team is not always productive, however a productive team is almost always happy. Brian Norgard

Focus is the art of knowing what to ignore. James Clear

Fun is productive. Josh Spector

4 hours of focused work and 8 hours of sleep enable you to do whatever you want with the other 12 hours of the day. Joey Justice (Source)

Productive people are masters of their schedule. Average people are mastered by it. Maxime Lagacé

The best productivity app on your phone is called airplane mode. Dan Go (Source)

To be productive you’ve got to overcome the fear of how what you produce will be received. Josh Spector

Don’t ever be afraid to end the meeting early. Chris Sacca

Amplify what works, discard what doesn’t. Gal Shapira

Wandering is an essential counter-balance to efficiency. You need to employ both. Jeff Bezos

The majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do. Gary Keller

Productivity comes easily when you have as much respect for your future self as your current self. David Perell

Divided attention makes for slow results. Shane Parrish (Source)

People who squander time on the unessential tend to have no time for the essential. Shane Parrish

Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority. Gary Keller

The truest way to decline is just to say, “it doesn’t feel right to me.” No explanation is necessary. Naval Ravikant

Blocking off space in your calendar and treating it as sacred time is the only way to consistently do creative work. David Perell

Better than a to-do list is a now or never mindset. Sahil Lavingia (Source)

Productivity isn’t about being a workhorse. Keeping busy or burning the midnight oil… It’s more about priorities, planning, and fiercely protecting your time. Margarita Tartakovsky

Dividing your attention divides your results. Shane Parrish

To save time, stop looking for shortcuts. Shane Parrish

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they’re even paying. Gary Keller

When you say yes to something it’s imperative that you understand what you’re saying no to. Gary Keller

Clarity is the magic pill that takes you from laziness to productivity. Cory Arnold (Source)

You don’t have eight creative, problem-solving hours in the day – you have two. Spend your time wisely. Naval Ravikant

There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. Gary Keller

Our ability to achieve extraordinary results in the future lies in stringing together powerful moments, one after the other. Gary Keller

Spend the best hours of your day on the biggest opportunity, not the biggest problem. Shane Parrish

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The biggest risk to productivity is always the same: working on the wrong thing. James Clear

My favorite productivity technique is deciding something is not worth doing anymore. Daniel Vassallo

“Yes” takes time away from what matters. “No” creates time for what matters. Every time you say yes, you create an obligation. Shane Parrish

In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency. Shane Parrish

Being busy is cheap, focus is expensive. Brian Norgard

There are no busy people only people who suck at prioritization. Kunal Shah

One of the most freeing days in your life is the day you realize you don’t need to respond to everyone that emails, calls, texts, and messages you. Anthony Pompliano (Source)

The single greatest meeting productivity tool is to kindly ask attendees to put their phones away. Brian Norgard

You’re not running out of time, you’re running out of energy working on the wrong stuff. Sahil Lavingia

Most time management problems are actually attention management problems. Josh Spector

Productive people value what they want tomorrow more than what they want today. Josh Spector

A busy schedule hides the inability to prioritize. Shane Parrish

Think in decades, act in days. Anthony Pompliano (Source)

To get something new done, you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable. Jeff Bezos

Busy and productive are not the same thing. It’s easy to be busy. It’s hard to be productive. Busyness is doing something. Productivity is going somewhere. Busyness is a virus that infects productivity. Shane Parrish

Conclusion

Infinite things to care about, finite time and energy to apply. Jack Butcher

A few thoughts on productivity…

Being productive is not the end goal of life.

BUT,

it’s difficult to lead a good and successful life if you’re not at least a little productive.

So, how do you become productive?

There are many productivity hacks out there and if we summarize them, it would be something like this:

Prioritize the most important thing
Work on it until it’s done
Say no to everything else (distractions, messages, notifications, phones, people, other tasks, etc.)

Those who can’t prioritize and who succumb to distractions will indeed feel like victims.

The other ones will feel like masters of their time.

Be the latter.

Life will reward you tenfold.

Key Takeaways

Productivity is the art of focusing on and doing ONE impactful thing, on a consistent basis.
What you work on is more important than working fast.
Remember: you create value by finishing what you start.
Saying no and being indistractable are superpowers.
The benefits of being productive?
- You’ll be ahead of people who get distracted easily
- You’ll feel proud of yourself
- You’ll create a better world

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A few thoughts on productivity…

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