Alexis Ohanian Quotes

Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

I hate wasting people's time.

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

Email is the greatest thing.

I'm trying to keep my days very efficient, and I keep my set really tight. Every single corner is active, and everybody gets to thrive in the job that they do. I don't waste people's time.

Employers who recognize the importance of investing in their workforce have a more productive workforce, a more efficient workforce, a more loyal workforce, less turnover, and, in the private sector, more profitable.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

When I'm working, I get super lazy and I just do something that I'm familiar with.

You have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

The pressure to perform is relentless in today's workplace - regardless of where you work. We are all being asked to do more with less. I think what we could borrow from the culture of Silicon Valley is "eat your own dog food ." That is an expression used by tech types to mean using what you make or sell.

A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

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.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.