Top 100 Quotes About Productivity
#2. TV's not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book, then you don't want to write a book bad enough.
Andrea Seigel
#3. Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
Paul J. Meyer
#4. Indian IT corporations have made work in the U.S. much more efficient by enhancing their productivity and quality of work. We have helped to add sufficient value to the corporations in the U.S.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#5. Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
Douglas R. Hofstadter
#6. What heightens ingenuity heightens productivity.
What heightens creativity heightens originality.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#7. ...the road, rail, and port systems are so bad that poor countries cannot develop the scale of operations necessary to achieve high productivity.
William W. Lewis
#8. My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.
Francine Jay
#9. What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it's too late?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#10. If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.
Eileen Myles
#11. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.
David Allen
#12. Assigning work projects based on an employee's strengths may be critical to your group's productivity. You may discover you had a Michael Jordan on your team but couldn't see it because you were only asking him to play baseball.
John Medina
#13. Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.
Rob Pike
#14. By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#15. It is time to rekindle the spirit of the Renaissancee to achieve a golden age that will be a turning point for human productivity and quality of life.
Joel Garreau
#16. Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.
J.R.D. Tata
#17. The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.
Peter Drucker
#18. Systems that are too complex to understand kill organizational productivity and the ease with which you can add engineers or add functionality to your system.
Martin L. Abbott
#19. True productivity is not first about efficiency - doing things right and doing them quickly - but effectiveness - doing the right things.
Matt Perman
#20. Reason #2: The other reason you'll want to track your productivity is because of a little-known principle called The Hawthorne Effect. This effect says that whatever you measure improves.
Ryan Healy
#21. The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the freedom and the productivity follows from the freedom and the justice.
Henry Hazlitt
#22. Always evaluate and determine the product of your life
Sunday Adelaja
#24. Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information
William Hunter
#25. Productivity - true productivity - will never be better or stronger than the foundation you build it upon.
Tim Challies
#26. Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.
Corita Kent
#27. The only way to make life fruitful is by being productive
Sunday Adelaja
#28. The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.
Ludwig Von Mises
#29. I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.
John Prescott
#30. If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and e-mail records and Web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?
Chip Heath
#31. Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.
Peter Thiel
#32. There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.
Gray Davis
#33. It [money] doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water
whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.
Adriana Trigiani
#35. On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
Bill Gates
#36. Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.
Jason Fried
#37. An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.
Karl Marx
#39. The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
Ken Blanchard
#40. A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#41. 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
#42. America's economic strength depends on industry's ability to improve productivity and quality and to remain on the cutting edge of technology, and that's why the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is so important.
Ronald Reagan
#43. Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.
W. Edwards Deming
#44. Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#45. Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.
Mario Draghi
#46. Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
Gabe Newell
#49. God calls you to productivity, but he calls you to the right kind of productivity. He calls you to be productive for his sake, not your own.
Tim Challies
#50. it is the only advanced society in which the incomes of the majority have not risen in the 1980s and 1990s, despite steady increases in productivity.
Arne L. Kalleberg
#51. 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
#53. Music is a means of spreading the good word and spreading positivity and productivity. Those things speak to me.
CeeLo Green
#54. 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
#55. One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.
Joshua Foer
#56. Reflect on what you do in your day. You may have never realized how some simple harmless activities rob you of precious time
Vivek Naik
#57. America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
Fareed Zakaria
#58. The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.
Lionel Shriver
#59. An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can!
John C. Maxwell
#60. The best way to assess yourself is to base the assessment on the product you produce daily
Sunday Adelaja
#61. I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.
Tony Abbott
#62. Guilt takes away the energy and strength and reduces a person's productivity
Sunday Adelaja
#63. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus
Alexander Graham Bell
#64. 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
#68. No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.
Brian Tracy
#69. Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
#70. Putting the other person first equals maximum productivity.
Matt Perman
#71. If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?
Rick Warren
#72. The most surprising part of the 1985 Jeffery-Lawrence study appeared at the very end, when they investigated the productivity of 24 projects for which no estimates were prepared at all. These projects far outperformed all the others
Tom DeMarco
#73. Joblessness gives you control over the product of your life
Sunday Adelaja
#74. We commissioned an independent statutory economic body - the Productivity Commission - to review the possibility of funding a disability scheme. The commission returned with a view that it could. Then it becomes an issue of national will.
Bill Shorten
#75. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker
Peter Drucker
#76. Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong
these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.
Peter Drucker
#77. Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.
Daniel Kahneman
#78. Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
Zig Ziglar
#79. Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation ...
Peter Drucker
#80. Effectiveness in life is a measure of how many products you are able to produce in life
Sunday Adelaja
#81. The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.
Timothy Ferriss
#82. Colour can transform our environment and increase our productivity. It can enhance our social life, and improve our state of health.
Dorothy Sun
#83. In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager.
Tony Alessandra
#84. Leaders can create a high productivity level by providing the appropriate organizational structure and job design, and by acknowledging and appreciating hard work.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#86. Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth.
Susan Cain
#87. It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.
Nathan W. Morris
#88. We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.
Michael Oxley
#89. 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
#90. The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#91. In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.
Mitt Romney
#93. The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.
Toshihiko Fukui
#94. You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
Robert Solow
#95. Coercive redistribution of wealth through government's abuse of law and misapplication of rights destroys individual liberty; ambition, productivity, and wealth; and the purpose of the commonwealth.
Mark R. Levin
#96. I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
Shia Labeouf
#97. We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
Paul Hawken
#98. Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!
William Hazlitt
#99. 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
#100. 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
