Productivity Quotes
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Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information
William Hunter
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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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I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.
Simon Sinek
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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
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You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
Steve Jobs
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It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
Bill Gates
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The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.
Tim Ferriss
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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.
Tim Bishop
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The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
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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.
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
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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.
Nigel Lawson
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Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.
Tim Ferriss
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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.
Dan S. Kennedy
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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.
David Heinemeier Hansson
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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.
Michael Porter
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Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.
Thomas Sowell
