Productivity Quotes - Page 22

• On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

  Bill Gates

  Impact, Three, Next

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• I accept the proposition that there has been a significant improvement in underlying productivity growth in the United States, that it is very closely tied to improvements in information and communications technology, and that it is likely to spread around the world. But I resist the new economy label because it seems to encourage a disrespect for the old rules that could seriously undermine our success in taking advantage of the new opportunities.

  Laurence Meyer

  Communication, Technology, Opportunity

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• A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept
  current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis,
  is a master key to stress-free productivity.

  David Allen

  Stress, Keys, Lists

  David Allen (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.102, Penguin

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• The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

  Lionel Shriver

  Seductive, Television, Killers

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• Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Elderly, Years

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• Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Contradiction, Sameness, Productive

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• Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

  Peter Thiel

  Country, Technology, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In all the thrashing about that results from our dwindling gold reserves, it's about time that this country and other countries get some perspective on the situation. The day this country is out of the stuff, that day gold becomes what it's worth as a metal and no longer will have much significance as a monetary measurement. It isn't the gold we have that makes this nation rich. It's what we make, our knowhow, our productivity. So long as this country produces more and better, the world will continue to want what we make.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Country, Long, Perspective

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• If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

  Stephen Covey

  Men, Giving, Work Ethic

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.223, Mango Media Inc.

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• Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts, a deceiver, a means of unleashing vast evil in the world of the most unexpected and undetected sort and the greatest diverter of human productivity ever concocted by those who do not believe in authentic social and economic progress.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Lying, Believe, Dirty

  "Jeffrey Tucker on Laissez Faire Books, Intellectual Property Rights and 'Beautiful Anarchy'". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. August 12, 2012.

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• A proactive person needs no pressure to perform and an ineffective person offloads his pressure onto others to deform the positive work culture of the system. So practically, a progressive organization knows that no pressure environment plays a pivotal role to increase the productivity or proficiency of its workforce.

  Anuj

  Play, Organization, Needs

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• I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

  Robin Sharma

  Passion, Expression, Creative

  "How I Start My Day: Robin Sharma". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Food, Heart, Meat

  Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

  Walter Wriston

  Army, Men, Principles

  1986 Risk and Other Four-Letters Words.

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• ... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety. ... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Strong, Self Esteem, Opportunity

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.32, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture.

  Jan Hatzius

  Data, Alternatives, Looks

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• Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch hour. You want time free from phone calls, visitors, mail, things to read. Unplug the phone if you have to. Lock your door. Put a sign on it that warns people of the consequences of entering. Do what you have to and watch the results. One hour of uninterrupted time can double a person's productivity for the day.

  Geri Larkin

  Phones, Doors, Lunch

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• Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.

  John C. Maxwell

  Differences, People, Focus

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• The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in productivity have dropped, the gains in income for the middle class and the least advantaged have slowed, at best.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Usa, Class

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure to suffering or productivity to work or gratification to sacrifice or any of that stuff, which, you know, a couple generations ago, to say that kind of stuff would have made you, you know, a freak - a freak and an Epicurean - and now seems to be so much - simply an unquestioned assumption of the culture that we don't really even talk about it anymore.

  David Foster Wallace

  Couple, Sacrifice, Ideas

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. That routine pays off for you. You get a lot of productivity that way, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration and waiting for the perfect thing to happen. I would be much less productive that way.

  Woody Allen

  Inspiration, Writing, People

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• World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline. This time, the war [in Iraq] is bad for the economy in both the short and long run. We could have spent trillions in research or education instead. This would have led to future productivity increases.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Running, War, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.

  Tony Abbott

  Jobs, Regulation, Prosperity

  Australia politics live with Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

  Alex Campbell

  Mean, Excellence, Progress

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