Sri Aurobindo Quotes

My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits.

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

I have to do my homework, be fast and consistent. In that case I have always beaten my team-mates.

If everyone knows the role they play, and they do their job - executing it well and with enthusiasm - it comes together successfully every time.

I've got a great team around me. They keep me working hard; they keep me focused.

When people work together, they have no time for nonsense.

Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed

Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.

It's just one day at a time. I love multi-tasking and I'm really organized and when you have a certain work ethic, which all the girls have, we all have that same thing going on.

You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

A Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting. PLAN while others are playing. STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying. PREPARE while others are daydreaming. BEGIN while others are procrastinating. WORK while others are wishing. SAVE while others are wasting. LISTEN while others are talking. SMILE while others are frowning. COMMEND while others are criticizing. PERSIST while others are quitting.

As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.