Productivity Quotes - Page 15

• All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.55

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• I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.

  Tony Abbott

  School, Thinking, Government

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

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• The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head.

  Richard Bandler

  Easier

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• Focus on being productive instead of busy.

  Tim Ferriss

  Productive Work, Focus, Kick Ass

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• We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

  Paul Hawken

  Long, Environmental, Path

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• Work hard, have fun and make history.

  Jeff Bezos

  Fun, Hard Work, Having Fun

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Consider everything an experiment.

  Corita Kent

  Imagination, Experiments

  Corita Kent, Corita (1992). “Learning by Heart”, Bantam

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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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• Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Success

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• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

  Corita Kent

  Self, Way, Better Ways

  Corita Kent, Corita (1992). “Learning by Heart”, Bantam

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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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• Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Vacation, Agreement

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• Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Important, Matter

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.63, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Taken, People, Effort

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• The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. If you're still at the point when you're even just barely going through the motions--showing up at work, paying the bills--you are still okay or okay enough. A desire not to acknowledge sadness in ourselves or those close to us--better known these days as denial, is such a strong urge that plenty of people prefer to think that until you are actually flying out of a window, you don't have a problem.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Strong, Jobs, Responsibility

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Fall, Numbers, Work Out

  "Sheryl Sandberg Is Half Right" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2013.

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• For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Agriculture, Income

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.144, Counterpoint

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