Productivity Quotes
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Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.
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It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
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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.
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The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example -- it is the world's best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem. That means at times we'll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.
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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.
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Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information
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In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.
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It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.
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You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
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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.
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In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
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Multi-unit business enterprise replaced small traditional enterprise when administrative coordination permitted greater productivity, lower costs, and higher profits than coordination by market mechanisms.
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By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.
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The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.
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Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world...
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Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation
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Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.
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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.
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During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per head in manufacturing has been the highest of all the seven major industrial countries.
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.
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The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.
