Sir John Templeton was a legendary investor and mutual fund manager who founded the Templeton Growth Fund. He was an early innovator in global value investing.

His collection of funds held more than $13 billion in assets when he sold the firm in 1992. Following this sale, he spent the rest of his life focusing on philanthropic pursuits.

I hope that you will enjoy this collection of John Templeton quotes.

1. Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others. — John Templeton

2. Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well. — John Templeton

3. Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others… No one’s education is ever complete. — John Templeton

4. It is nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice. — John Templeton

5. If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd. — John Templeton

6. A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have. — John Templeton

7. If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually. — John Templeton

8. If you earn a dollar and spend a dollar ten, you’ll be a failure. But if you earn a dollar and spend ninety cents, you’re on the road to success! — John Templeton

9. Success is a process of continually seeking answers to new questions. — John Templeton

10. Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth. Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. — John Templeton

11. An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. — John Templeton

12. The big difference between those who are successful and those who are not is that successful people learn from their mistakes and the mistakes of others. — John Templeton

13. The best time to invest is when you have money. — John Templeton

14. The four most expensive words in the English language are “this time it’s different. — John Templeton

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Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. — John Templeton

16. The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse. — John Templeton

17. If you want to become really wealthy, you must have your money work for you. — John Templeton

18. If you’re not grateful, you’re not rich – no matter how much you have. — John Templeton

19. Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools for your mind to use in coming to appropriate decisions. — John Templeton

20. If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search. — John Templeton

Do you ever wish that you could be more productive or have more hours in each day to get everything done? I hope that following collection of quotes will both inspire you and help to boost your productivity.

I have carefully picked these quotes from people such as Jim Rohn, Tim Ferriss, Brian Tracy and others who are experts on how you can be more productive.

Being more productive is not always about working harder. Actually, more often than not it is usually about working smarter. I hope that you will enjoy this wonderful collection of productivity quotes and they inspire you to work smarter in the future.

Here are 30 productivity quotes that will inspire you to accomplish more.

1. Focus on being productive instead of busy. — Tim Ferriss

2. The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. — Stephen Covey

3. Action is the foundational key to all success. — Pablo Picasso

4. The path to success is to take massive, determined action. — Tony Robbins

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

6. Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest. — Leo Babauta

7. Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start. — Simon Sinek

8. Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. — Franz Kafka

9. Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. — Paul J. Meyer

10. Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz

11. Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It’s not what happens to you that matters but how you respond. — Ken Blanchard

12. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. — Dale Carnegie

13. You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself. — Seth Godin

14. Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely. — Jim Rohn

15. Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow. — Mark Manson

16. Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. — Sam Levenson

17. Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale

18. It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. — Brian Tracy

19. Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. — Stephen King

20. I don’t have time’ means ‘It’s not a priority.’ We always have time for what matters to us. — Laura Vanderkam

21. Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it. — Kevin O’Leary

22. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. — Bruce Lee

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

24. Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

25. Move toward your wildest dreams, take the labels off your mind and step boldly into your greatness. – Iyanla Vanzant

26. The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau

27. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. — Wayne Gretzky

28. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. — Mark Twain

29. Don’t count the days. Make the days count. — Muhammad Ali

30. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. — Jim Rohn

George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1856. In 1876 he moved to London to write, but he struggled financially. In 1895, he became a theater critic for the Saturday Review and began writing plays of his own.

Bob Dylan and George Bernard Shaw are the only two people who have won a Nobel Prize for Literature and an Academy Award. Shaw won won his Nobel Prize for Literature for “Pygmalion” and his Academy Award for the screenplay of “Pygmalion”. 

His life’s work includes over 60 plays, as well as many essays, novels, and short stories.

I hope that you will enjoy this wonderful collection of George Bernard Shaw Quotes.

1. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw

2. Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. — George Bernard Shaw

3. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them. — George Bernard Shaw

4. Write your sad times in sand, write your good times in stone. — George Bernard Shaw

5. Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. — George Bernard Shaw

6. The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. — George Bernard Shaw

7. Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results. — George Bernard Shaw

8. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize. — George Bernard Shaw

9. Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance. — George Bernard Shaw

10. The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. — George Bernard Shaw

11. People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. — George Bernard Shaw

12. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. — George Bernard Shaw

13. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. — George Bernard Shaw

14. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw

15. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness. — George Bernard Shaw

16. Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

17. The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw

18. Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby. — George Bernard Shaw

19. Life is not meant to be easy my child, but take courage: it can be delightful. — George Bernard Shaw

20. We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. — George Bernard Shaw

21. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

22. Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think. — George Bernard Shaw

23. Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations. — George Bernard Shaw

24. Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. — George Bernard Shaw

25. There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in. — George Bernard Shaw