Productivity Quotes - Page 9

• Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors

  Michael Meacher

  Business, Team, Thinking

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• The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques.

  Shannon Wheeler

  Keys, Technique, Avoidance

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• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Fairness, Unfair, Employers

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.349, Macmillan

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• Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

  Sydney Smith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Believe, Sacrifice, America

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• In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

  James Surowiecki

  Cutting, Technology, Practice

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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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• You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Inspirational, Success, Mistake

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• Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

  John Wayne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Wayne's lost world" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2007.

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• The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

  Jack Welch

  Hard Work, Ideas, Forever

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. June 11, 2011.

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• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  Fareed Zakaria

  America, Innovation, Growth

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• Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

  John Ruskin

  Writing, Reader, Skip

  "A Joy for Ever". Book by John Ruskin, note 6, 1857.

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• It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Psychological Health, Self

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

  Chris Crutcher

  Memorial Day, Easter, Kings

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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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• The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations for decades to come. By contrast, the physical, emotional and intellectual impairment that poverty inflicts on children canmean a lifetime of suffering and want - and a legacy of poverty for the next generation.

  Carol Bellamy

  Time, Children, Future

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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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• Success equals goals; all else is commentary

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Goal, Commentary

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2015

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• In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Quality, Use, Economics

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