Productivity Quotes - Page 20

• The Democrats have so corrupted our understanding of economics and productivity that lowering tax rates is now considered to be some kind of sop to the rich. I mean, it's just profound to me, the damage inflicted on this country by the Democrats in their pursuit of perpetual power.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Mean, Profound

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In total, by giving people $30 bonus, Intel lost almost 5 percent of productivity. That's a lot. Now, think about it. You give money because you think this would increase motivation. It actually decreases motivation.

  Dan Ariely

  Motivation, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In New York, there's so much stuff going on all the time, and when I first moved here my productivity went down. I felt like I had certain social obligations. I found the more that I was like, "Don't listen to other music," or "Don't watch other things," and, "Don't go to other shows," for a specific time period, if I really need to complete something, that is the most helpful tool for me.

  Kissey

  Helpful, Obligation, Moved

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Manufacturing productivity is greatly determined by the design of jobs and how workers are rewarded.

  James O'Toole

  Design, Determined

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is a prime example of an American company that uses employment conditions to boost productivity. Current CEO James Ziemer - who started with the company while in high school has negotiated imaginative contracts with the unions representing Harley's workers, agreeing to keep production in the U.S. in exchange for constantly reducing total labor costs through automating tasks and changing work rules. Because Harley regularly reassigns workers whose tasks have been automated to other parts of the company.

  James O'Toole

  School, Motorcycle, Ceo

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In the 80s, Ford's successful introduction of the Taurus was, in large part, due to productivity gains resulting from the setting aside of outmoded work rules. Yet, inexplicably, union leaders ignored such efforts to foster employee involvement, much as unions largely stayed on the sidelines with regard to the equally promising practices of employee stock ownership and gain-sharing.

  James O'Toole

  Successful, Leader, Effort

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. 2008.

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• Sadly, too many corporate leaders still believe that the way to boost productivity and profits is to continually reduce salaries, benefits, and training expenditures, a strategy that can be taken only so far. At a certain point in a developed society, salaries and benefits can't be slashed further and, in the long term, comparative economic advantage then must be realized through the effective mobilization of an educated, engaged, and loyal workforce.

  James O'Toole

  Believe, Taken, Long

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One of the biggest concerns about going out beyond lower Earth orbit is the radiation. We find that exercise seems to counteract a lot of the negative effects of space flight, like bone loss and muscle atrophy and cardiovascular systems issues. We exercise two hours a day on the station, which is a huge hit out of your day. It's great for staying in shape, but you know, it cuts into the productivity of the crew and if you look at how expensive it is to get a crew into space, if we can keep them healthy and have them exercise, but spend less time doing it, we can get more done.

  Leroy Chiao

  Cutting, Loss, Exercise

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You can pay certain people more money and stuff but that's just going to be a transfer from one group to another. The only way people's wages are going to rise overall, or average median income is going to rise, is if you increase productivity.

  Charles Koch

  Average, People, Groups

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thank You, Giving Up, Fall

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• The intrinsic social structure, the family structure and so forth, is certainly in a very bad state. And I think that this is showing up in productivity. I think part of the reason, and I can't prove this, we're seeing a decline in some places is the breakup of the family, which is partly the result of an extreme form of individualism.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Breakup, Thinking, Showing Up

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Success, God, Men

  "Mahatma & the Monkeys". Book by Anuradha Kumar, p.64, March 12, 2012.

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• There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour productivity growth rates. This is obvious. The overall demographic situation is very complicated.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Growth, Population

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

  Tim Jackson

  Capitalist Economy, Progress, Literature

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• Never confuse motion with action.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspiring, 4th Of July, Confused Love

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• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization.

  Christine Lagarde

  Benefits, Globalization, Direct

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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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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• I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

  Tim Ferriss

  Appreciation, People, Achievement

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• Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

  Larry Elder

  Jobs, Unemployment, Cost

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• The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Work, Common Sense

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• Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Life, Wise, Time

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2001). “The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker”, Routledge

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• Growth in productivity has diverged from growth in the share that working people can expect right across advanced economies, but this trend started earlier and has been more pronounced in the U.S.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  People, Growth, Trends

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Our current model of capitalism and the dominant ideas in policy making have led to a failure of investment by both the public and the private sector in the things that drive productivity, and which affect its distribution.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Policy Making, Ideas, Investment

  Source: www.salon.com

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