Productivity Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
Shawn Achor
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
Rita Mae Brown
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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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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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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
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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.
David Rolf
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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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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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Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation
Brian Tracy
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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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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
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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
