Top 58 People Productivity Quotes
#1. Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions.
Michael Dell
#2. People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it
David Allen
#3. One of the most valuable gifts that a person can give (or receive) is a productive mentality. It is with a productive mentality that people change their lives for the better, in ways profound.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#4. We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web.
Sandy Carter
#5. I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.
Mitch Kapor
#6. Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity ... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
Julia Gillard
#7. Authority - when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats - makes people shut down & productivity ceases.
John Stoker
#8. Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.
Knut Hamsun
#9. Motivation is undoubtedly the single greatest influence on how well people perform. Most productivity studies have found that motivation has a stronger influence on productivity than any other factor.
Steve McConnell
#10. Countries don't go out of business ... The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don't go away. And so their assets always exceed their liabilities, which is the technical reason for bankruptcy. And that's very different from a company.
Walter Wriston
#11. Even when presented with evidence of my own productivity I think that the people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.
Lena Dunham
#12. It's the coolest thing - showing young, bright, and creative people that compassion and a compassionate life is the richest way to live. When you live that life, you create progress, productivity, and innovation.
Ian Somerhalder
#13. Lesson learned: One person's success can be perceived as another's loss. Productivity is more important to some people than others. Those same people for whom productivity is not so important are often green-eyed with envy when someone else makes money. The
Douglas Wallace
#14. Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.
Robin Sharma
#15. At the core of the products we build, I want to think about productivity centered around people.
Satya Nadella
#16. priority. FIG. 23 In business, profit and productivity are also driven by priority and purpose. Personal productivity is the building block of all business profit. The two are inseparable. A business can't have unproductive people yet magically still have an immensely
Gary Keller
#17. You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
Steve Jobs
#18. Be wary when people tell you that they don't produce a lot, but when they do, it will be "brilliant." Remember that innovation is largely a function of productivity.
Robert I. Sutton
#19. Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#20. In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.
James Surowiecki
#21. A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#22. Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress. It ensures that all advantages which result from higher productivity may eventually be enjoyed.
Ludwig Erhard
#23. It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.
Sam Altman
#24. Give yourself a deadline. Amazingly, many people work better under pressure. They are quickly moved to action when they know that they have a clock to beat!
Kevin J. Donaldson
#25. The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.
Norman Vincent Peale
#26. Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
Isabel Allende
#27. Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.
Arthur Miller
#28. Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he's been dead for forty years, he's still making new records. Suck on that, Partnership for a Drug-Free America!
Bill Maher
#29. Dreaming of being on Moon cannot get you there. It requires a focused & intelligent effort to achieve what you Dream.
Neelesh V. Sakhardande
#30. In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.
James Surowiecki
#31. 1.9% had agricultural jobs, more than a 20-fold improvement in productivity per person. So if all people wanted was to be fed, the average person needs to work
Daniel Berleant
#32. Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it's about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.
John C. Maxwell
#33. The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but
and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move.
George W. Bush
#34. An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can!
John C. Maxwell
#35. The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.
Peter Drucker
#36. The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.
Timothy Ferriss
#37. The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
Edmund Phelps
#38. The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.
Andrew Carnegie
#39. You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.
Brian Tracy
#40. Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They're associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.
Susan Cain
#41. I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.
Timothy Ferriss
#42. Charismatic people not only want to win, they want others to win too. That creates productivity.
John C. Maxwell
#44. Pulling seven people away from their work for an hour is worth seven hours of lost productivity.
Jason Fried
#46. At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.
Judy Woodruff
#47. Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.
Steve Pavlina
#48. The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Tom Peters
#49. Millionaires don't play the blame game but the gain game.
Dee Dee Artner
#50. I'm killing two birds at once, so to speak. Animal-based food kills people. This way, by going vegan ... we get healthy and save animals. I'm being selfish, too, because if I can get my employees healthier, we cut down on sick days and gain more productivity.
Steve Wynn
#51. Stop Blaming. Take responsibility for your thoughts and your actions.
Dee Dee Artner
#52. I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.
Scott Adams
#53. Managers' responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company's strategy. The company's strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees' productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor.
Anna Stevens
#54. We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.
Alvin Toffler
#55. the best way to create productivity is "to get rid of people.
Peter Thiel
#56. For people to be happy in life, two factors are crucial: One is good interpersonal relationships and the second is a feeling of productivity. That feeling feeds motivation.
Peter A. Spevak
#57. We know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety ... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.
Judith M Bardwick
#58. The U.S. has done a great job improving productivity. We're making a lot more steel in Dearborn with fewer people. The unions have accepted much better work rules.
Alexei Mordashov
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