Productivity Improvement Quotes

#1. In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

Bill Gates

#2. In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.

W. Edwards Deming

#3. Laziness is when you accede to the misconception that work is unnecessary.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#4. 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

#5. Medicine today invests heavily in information technology, yet the promised improvement in patient safety and productivity frankly have not been realized,

Peter Pronovost

#6. where there is a Will, there is a Way; else EXCUSES Rule !

Neelesh V. Sakhardande

#7. The only doors that open are the ones you knock on.

Scott Marquart

#8. My whole thing was, if I can put in 5 percent of the effort of somebody getting an A, and I can get a C minus, that's amazing," he explains. "It's certainly good enough, right? [Then] I can take the other 95 percent of the time and invest it in something I really care about.

David Heinemeier Hansson

#9. I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

Herbert Hoover

#10. 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

#11. Goals are set in life to enable concentrated and directed effort to be employed toward a desired end. Without goals, it will be easy to derail, and it will also be hard to track progress.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#12. There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Fred Brooks

#13. What constitutes worth? In short, I would say the valuable attributes you have in relation to how you can productively use them ... All attributes have value, but they have worth if they are used productively.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#14. English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its stupidity. And new writers buy into that.

Dean Wesley Smith

#15. If you have attributes that you could use less productively last year than you can this year (meaning you are more productive), then you have made progress. The opposite equates to regression.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe