Productivity Quotes - Page 7

• The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.

  Genghis Khan

  Success, Lying, Finishing It

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• Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

  Peter Drucker

  Time, Kick Ass, Manage

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• The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, Morning, Motivation

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.95

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• Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

  Janet Yellen

  Growth, Sides, Painful

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• Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

  Iqbal Quadir

  Office, Village, Poverty

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• What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Order, Done, Want

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• The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.

  Will Durant

  Past, Rely Upon, Police

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that in order to progress we must stretch for something just out of reach--if only for a life that will be more compassionate and decent than the cruelty, paranoia, greed, narrow corporatism, or narcissism we mostly indulge in and find such ample justification for. And so we dream.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Dream, Order, Indulge In

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• The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the second world war and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  War, Long, World

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

  Tim Holden

  Educational, Technology, Impact

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  Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

  Lee Iacocca

  Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Communication

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• By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

  Amory Lovins

  Design, Cost, Energy

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• Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Night

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• There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Leadership, Freedom

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• NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Technology, Reality

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• That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.

  Will Self

  Political, Training, Environment

  "Why I said yes to Professor Self" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.

  James Sinegal

  Loss, Class, Dynamics

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• I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

  Simon Sinek

  Writing, Flying, Made

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• In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.

  James Surowiecki

  Differences, America, People

  "No Work and No Play". www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2005.

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• What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Cost, Wages

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• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Time, Effort, Management

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• Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.

  Robin Sharma

  Gratitude, Inspire, Mastery

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jan 08, 2015

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• Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Celebration, Celebration Of Life, Sabbath

  Walter Brueggemann (2011). “Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries: Deuteronomy”, p.69, Abingdon Press

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• The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but -- and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, People, Weakness

  Bill Moyers Journal, www.pbs.org. July 18, 2008.

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