Productivity Quotes
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Higher productivity enables companies to increase sales without adding workers. Even if job markets tighten and wages rise, corporate profits can continue to climb as long as worker productivity is growing faster than overall wages.
Alex Berenson -
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
Julia Gillard
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As a tech optimist, I believe productivity woes can be solved through cleverly imagined and implemented technology.
Caroline Ghosn -
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 -
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 -
There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.
Tim Ferriss -
Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.
Joe Biden -
The U.K. and the U.S. are quite similar in that they have high-productivity, English-speaking workforces who don't mind working long hours. Working in those countries is not a problem.
Azim Premji
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This venture deepens our investment in expanding our flat-rolled products capabilities globally and increases our manufacturing flexibility and productivity.
Alain J. P. Belda -
In a sensibly organised society, if you improve productivity, there is room for everybody to benefit.
Geoffrey Hinton -
The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work.
William E. Conway, Jr. -
Large companies everywhere tend to be more productive than small ones. But the gap in productivity is far wider in developing countries.
Arancha Gonzalez -
Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
Rita Mae Brown -
Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force
W. Edwards Deming
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Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation
Brian Tracy -
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
Steve Jobs -
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 -
Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized.
Anil Dash -
50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use.
Bill Gates -
Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
Seneca the Younger
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Happiness inspires productivity.
Shawn Achor -
In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.
Vladimir Lenin -
Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals.
Dan S. Kennedy -
When the International Trade Centre, the agency I head, works with German electronics giant Bosch to help Kenyan food processing companies boost their productivity and export competitiveness, we may well be creating future customers for Bosch washing machines.
Arancha Gonzalez