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• Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain.

  Carolyn Hax

  Office, Brain, Saying No

  "Carolyn Hax Live: Use the china". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

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• There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.

  E. F. Schumacher

  People, Healthy, Three Things

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• Some say that by fighting the terrorists abroad since September the 11th, we only stir up a hornets' nest. But the terrorists who struck that day were stirred up already. If America were not fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere, what would these thousands of killers do - suddenly begin leading productive lives of service and charity? ... We are dealing here with killers who have made the death of Americans the calling of their lives.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Productive Life, Iraq

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• The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

  L. Neil Smith

  Government, Class, Important

  "Rule By Thieves: One Week in the American Kleptocracy" by John W. Whitehead, www.counterpunch.org. March 17, 2017.

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• The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

  Peter Drucker

  Essence, Management

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in a Time of Great Change”, p.219, Routledge

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• Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive

  Aliko Dangote

  Bed, Each Day, Endeavor

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• Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

  Peter Drucker

  Needs, Building, Process

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.206, Routledge

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• Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.

  Napoleon Hill

  Successful, Opportunity, People

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.67, Penguin

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• Be bold, be humble, be brave, be resilient, be productive, be good, good to yourselves and good to each other. Be careful; be caring.

  Katie Couric

  Humble, Caring, Brave

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• Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

  Chris Hadfield

  Opposites, Worry, Problem

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.50, Pan Macmillan

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• The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to conspiracy theories than it is to productive political debate.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Thinking, Political, Belief

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• Many persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. The security even of money depends on knowledge, experience, and ability. If productive ideas are displaced by destructive ideas, economic life suffers.

  Henry Ford

  Real, Thinking, Men

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• We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

  Charles Stanley

  Limits, Worst, Ability

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• An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

  Peter L. Berger

  Technology, Long, Modern

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• Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence?

  Leonard Read

  Effort, Influence, Economy

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• Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century, California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and growth. It did not become the richest, most populous, and most productive state solely because of its weather and natural resources. So it takes a lot to turn California around from growth to contraction, from people moving into the state to a net exodus from the state, from business moving into California to businesses leaving California. It takes some doing. And the Left has done it.

  Dennis Prager

  Moving, Weather, California

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• When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.

  Sheldon Richman

  Jobs, Government, Investing

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• Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment. Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts.

  John Stossel

  Real, Cancer, Moving

  "Arrogant Conceit". townhall.com. December 24, 2008.

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• When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that is not mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce, which allows the unsuccessful combatant to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.

  Edward Gibbon

  Blow, Encounters, Arms

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.2211, e-artnow

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• The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.

  Walter E. Williams

  Mascots, Prospects, Unproductive

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.358, Hoover Institution Press

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• No matter whether it is their intention or not, almost anything that the rich can legally do tends to help the poor. The spending of the rich gives employment to the poor. But the saving of the rich, and their investment of these savings in the means of production, gives just as much employment, and in addition makes that employment constantly more productive and more highly paid, while it also constantly increases and cheapens the production of necessities and amenities for the masses.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Mean, Giving, Saving

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Cutting, Cities

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• For decades now, the Democrats have had a good gig buying the votes of government workers with outrageous salaries, benefits and work rules - and then sticking productive earners with the bill. But, now, we're out of money.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Salary, Benefits

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• The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.

  Murray Rothbard

  Mean, Desire, Needs

  Murray N. Rothbard (2011). “Economic Controversies”, p.422, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• People put on their earphones, they lay out their phones, they put - open up their computers, and they convince themselves that they're most productive when they're focused on their e-mail, when, really, they're ignoring the cafeteria, the watercooler, the meetings with colleagues, the times when really the creativity, collaboration happens.

  Judy Woodruff

  Creativity, Phones, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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