Norman R. Augustine Quotes

Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

People under pressure don’t work better; they just work faster.

My productivity is overwhelming!

Your instinct when someone is busy is to give them the least amount of work so that they can do it.

I try not to schedule too many meetings. That's one of the things I learned in corporate America - that you can spend your days having meetings and never actually have time to work.

We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

All of us have just got to find that time to look after our bodies. That helps us make sure that our mind is sharp. I know that when I'm feeling great and really fit, I can get in three or four hours more of really productive work.

I'm not going to shoot seven days a week. I think it's counterproductive. I think you're going to have people stumbling around after a couple of weeks.

I'm always just trying to get the work done so that I can be free - like, with the sense that, like, the real me has no interest in this? I just gotta do it for my boss. But the catch is that I'm never free, I never finish the work, so I don't know who this freewheeling employee with extracurricular interests is.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

Anytime anybody goes, "Wow you've been busy." I'm like, "No, not since college. This is a cakewalk in comparison."

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.

If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled