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• Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

  Denis Waitley

  Procrastination, Opportunity, Numbers

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• Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Morning, Years, Rising Up

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Jobs, Business

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspiring, Efficiency, Irrelevant

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.155, Routledge

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• The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations for decades to come. By contrast, the physical, emotional and intellectual impairment that poverty inflicts on children canmean a lifetime of suffering and want - and a legacy of poverty for the next generation.

  Carol Bellamy

  Time, Children, Future

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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

  Creating, Innovation, Growth

  "The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value" by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2011.

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• Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

  Major Owens

  Together, Want, Students

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• There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

  Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

  World, Ineffectiveness, Waste

  "Motion Study as an Increase of National Wealth". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 59, (p. 96), www.jstor.org. May, 1915.

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• There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Tunnels

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• Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.

  Arthur Miller

  Happy, Trust, Communication

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• Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

  John Hoeven

  Produce, Folks

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• We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?

  William McDonough

  Creativity, Intelligent, Vision

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• 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

  Justice, Three, Capitalist

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• 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

  Law, Two, Important

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• Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

  David Allen

  Cutting, Energy, Cobwebs

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• You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

  David Allen

  Steps, Action, Projects

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.58, Penguin

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• A strong currency means that American consumers and businesses can buy imported goods and services more cheaply and that inflation and interest rates will be lower, ... It also puts pressure on American industry to increase productivity and competitiveness. These benefits can feed on themselves as foreign capital flows in more readily because of greater confidence in our currency. A weak dollar would have the contrary effects.

  Robert Rubin

  Strong, Mean, Dollars

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• Success equals goals; all else is commentary

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Goal, Commentary

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2015

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• In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Quality, Use, Economics

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• On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an extraordinarily skewed distribution system, substituting medium-run threats for short-term threats for the majority of the world's population, particularly the 50 to 80 percent at the bottom.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Running, Hands, Majority

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.121, Verso

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• We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

  Thomas W. Bennett

  Time, Time Management, Wasted Time

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• All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.55

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• All that matters is love and work.

  Sigmund Freud

  Sweet, Sweet Love, Matter

  "The couples who work and play together" by Angela Neustatter, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2005.

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• In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

  Andrew Lansley

  Reality, Reform, Cost

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• Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

  Jim Hightower

  Wages, Management, Increase

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