Productivity Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web.

  Sandy Carter

  Media, Effectiveness, People

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• You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

  Robert Solow

  Age, Statistics, Computer

  "The benefits of internet innovation are hard to spot in GDP statistics" by Joseph Stiglitz, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2014.

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• The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Leadership, Organization

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• Inflation is certainly low and stable and, measured in unemployment and labour-market slack, the economy has made a lot of progress. The pace of growth is disappointingly slow, mostly because productivity growth has been very slow, which is not really something amenable to monetary policy. It comes from changes in technology, changes in worker skills and a variety of other things, but not monetary policy, in particular.

  Ben Bernanke

  Technology, Growth, Progress

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.

  Andrew Weil

  Sleep, Light, Mind

  "Integrative Mental Health: A New Model For Depression Relief" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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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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• Pursue meaningful adventures.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Meaningful, Adventure, Pursue

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• But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

  H. G. Wells

  Years, Long, Waiting

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• Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

  James Sinegal

  Wages, Opposition

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• For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Long, Mind

  "John Hodgman's songs for Ragnarok, the end of days". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 2, 2012.

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• We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.

  Lewis Mumford

  Order, Issues, Finals

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter: "The Fulfillment of Man", 1951.

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• Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

  Rands

  Annoyed, Watches, Awe

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• 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.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

  Paul Hawken

  Trying, Poverty, Humans

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Strength, Work, Enough

  Rudyard Kipling (2007). “A Book of Words”, p.56, Wildside Press LLC

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