Productivity Quotes - Page 19

• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

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• Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  Booker T. Washington (2012). “Up from Slavery”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.

  William J. Clinton

  Commitment, America, Awards

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• Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Numbers, Enemy, Cost

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (1992). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”

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• We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

  Babatunde Fashola

  Should Have, Pay, Salary

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• As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.

  Sam Altman

  Thinking, Numbers, Squares

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• Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Work, Life Changing

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Happiness inspires productivity.

  Shawn Achor

  Inspire

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• Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

  Brian Tracy

  Preparation, Performances

  Brian Tracy (2002). “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”, p.73, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater responsibility sharing... Trade unions in this country should... consider these arrangements much more carefully than they have up to now... Expanded employee profit participation and stock ownership would provide workers with a greater measure of economic and social independence, thus stimulating increased productivity.

  Jacob K. Javits

  Wisdom, Country, Jobs

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• The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Politics, Input

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• ... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.

  Jack Kemp

  Wisdom, Jobs, Giving

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• Bring on those tired, labor-plagued, competition-weary companies and ESOP will breathe new life into them. They will find ESOP better than Geritol. It will revitalize what is wrong with capitalism. It will increase productivity. It will improve labor relations. It will promote economic justice. It will save the economic system. It will make our form of government and our concept of freedom prevail over those who don't agree with us.

  Russell B. Long

  Wisdom, Tired, Government

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• Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

  Charles H. Percy

  Wisdom, Pressure, Faces

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• Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are a diminished standard of living, higher labor costs, less competitive prices, and more inflation.

  Robert S. Strauss

  Wisdom, Cost, Trends

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• The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

  Steven Sinofsky

  Clouds, Smartphones, Tools

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• As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh - remember that agricultural economics is not a zero-sum game. Farmers want to make a living, so as demand increases, so does production. Not only that, but agricultural productivity has increased so rapidly that in some countries the government pays farmers not to plant crops in an effort to keep food prices from dropping.

  J. Budziszewski

  Country, Zero, Children

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• Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.

  Ryan Holmes

  Office, Might, Killers

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• The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work.

  William E. Conway, Jr.

  Way, Lean Manufacturing

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• This decade holds many changes for the United States, but the greatest needs regarding America's productivity in the 1990s, are better education and employee training.

  Gregory Balestrero

  America, Training, United States

  "American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society for Integrated Manufacturing". Manufacturing Review v.3 no. 1-3, 1990.

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• It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.

  Paul A. Baran

  Causes, United States, Investment

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.88, NYU Press

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• Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Thinking, Marketing

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.34, Vintage

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• Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.

  Rob Pike

  Engineering, Important, Management

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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

  Morning, Home, Funeral

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2013

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• Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.

  Charles Duhigg

  Morning, Skills, Stronger

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.109, Random House

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