Productivity Quotes - Page 13

• Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Forever, Quality, Cost

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce (edited by) Orsini (2012). “The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Secret, Needs, Stuff

  DHH @dhh, twitter.com. August 29, 2013.

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• I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

  Peter Brimelow

  Teacher, Thinking, Salary

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• The connection between health and productivity at work is intuitively obvious but has not been demonstrated to the satisfaction of either researchers or corporate financial officers. Ronald Kessler and Paul Stang help to bridge the usual gap between research and the marketplace with the help of a top-notch group of the best 'real-world' investigators obtainable-all in the cause of making the case that employee health should be treated as an investment in business performance-thus creating the new discipline of health and productivity management.

  Sean Sullivan

  Real, Bridges, Creating

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• Depending on the day or even the hour, productivity can take very low dips. At times, I may feel like throwing in the towel. I love being inspired by amazing women who have achieved great things. When I have a setback, I will spend 15 minutes reading quotes from strong women or reading or watching an interview with a woman I admire (a gold medalist or a CEO). This gets me back in the right mindset to tackle any challenge.

  Samantha Ettus

  Strong Women, Reading, Love Is

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• Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence all over the world that women are gaining social and economic power that they never had before. This is good news.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Population, News

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• We have an opportunity to improve productivity and cut costs while growing our way to a better and a more comfortable operating environment. I don't think anyone feels comfortable about bumping around where we are today.

  Scott McNealy

  Cutting, Opportunity, Thinking

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• With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the path to improving living standards that we'd expect in an economy posting strong productivity gains.

  Jared Bernstein

  Strong, Wages, Way

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• There is no need for a fear of losing control over who is accessing the network to hold back the productivity benefits of flexible working. By examining their access strategy, businesses can implement practices that will keep data secure and control access what and from where.

  Richard Jackson

  Losing Control, Practice, Data

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• Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

  Robert Genn

  Jobs, Artist, Approval Of Others

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• The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Jobs, Procrastination, Zest

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• Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Support Systems, Yield, Land

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• We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work slowly and consistently. Anthony Trollope, the nineteenth-century writer who managed to be a prolific novelist while also revolutionizing the British postal system, observed, “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Running, Creativity, Daily Tasks

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• The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.

  Lane Kirkland

  Country, Skills, Luxury

  The AFL-CIO American Federationist, Vols. 84-86, p. 4, 1977.

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• This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Unemployment, Increase, Strokes

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• Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Inspiration, Europe, Civilization

  "Reasoned Proposal to the Central Committee of the League for Peace and Freedom" also known as "Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism" by Mikhail Bakunin, September 1867.

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• A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Economic, Dependence, Nations

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• Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.

  Tillie Olsen

  Book, Men, Years

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.38, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.

  Shawn Achor

  Quality, Outcomes, Habit

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.

  Shawn Achor

  Loss, Thinking, Time Management

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Women, Believe, Home

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Technology, Goal, Needs

  "A War Tat is Finished". Gerald R. Ford's speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, www.historyplace.com. April 23, 1975.

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• The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Use, Information

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• Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

  Bill Shorten

  Wages, Levels, Workplace

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ask yourself this question, will this matter a year from now?

  Richard Carlson

  Letting Go, Not Giving Up, Bad Ass

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