Productivity Quotes - Page 21

• It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy.

  George Carlin

  Climbing, Views, Comedy

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that would be better. Or we pay wages in the public sector which are roughly equivalent to the productivity in the private sector and we don't therefore make it a special benefit to get a bureaucratic position.

  James M. Buchanan

  Trying, Special, Would Be

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Thinking Of You, Time

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• The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

  Sarah Palin

  Baby, Love Is, Obamacare

  "Will the Real Death Panel Please Step Forward?" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

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• As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh - remember that agricultural economics is not a zero-sum game. Farmers want to make a living, so as demand increases, so does production. Not only that, but agricultural productivity has increased so rapidly that in some countries the government pays farmers not to plant crops in an effort to keep food prices from dropping.

  J. Budziszewski

  Country, Zero, Children

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• Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.

  Ryan Holmes

  Office, Might, Killers

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• This decade holds many changes for the United States, but the greatest needs regarding America's productivity in the 1990s, are better education and employee training.

  Gregory Balestrero

  America, Training, United States

  "American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society for Integrated Manufacturing". Manufacturing Review v.3 no. 1-3, 1990.

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• The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work.

  William E. Conway, Jr.

  Way, Lean Manufacturing

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• It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.

  Paul A. Baran

  Causes, United States, Investment

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.88, NYU Press

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• Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had reached a happy stage of history where bullshit could be used as rocket fuel.

  Matt Taibbi

  Law, Bullshit, Humanity

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.60, Spiegel & Grau

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• The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.

  Alain de Botton

  Country, May, Developing Countries

  Alain de Botton (2009). “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.

  Michael Palin

  Writing, House, Feelings

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• BLACKBERRY. Also know as "Crackberry" for it's addictive qualities. It is the modern girl's weapon. It allow her to bid on ebay while walking down the street, map out her shopping route for maximum productivity, and sneak out of work and still get her messages as she peruses the sales racks.

  Nina Garcia

  Girl, Ebay, Shopping

  Nina Garcia (2009). “The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• The measure of 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.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Jobs, Responsibility, Simple

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

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• ... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.

  Jack Kemp

  Wisdom, Jobs, Giving

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• The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

  Steven Sinofsky

  Clouds, Smartphones, Tools

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• Happiness inspires productivity.

  Shawn Achor

  Inspire

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• Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are a diminished standard of living, higher labor costs, less competitive prices, and more inflation.

  Robert S. Strauss

  Wisdom, Cost, Trends

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• Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

  Brian Tracy

  Preparation, Performances

  Brian Tracy (2002). “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”, p.73, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Procrastination, Productive Life, Government

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.156, Routledge

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• Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Work, Life Changing

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater responsibility sharing... Trade unions in this country should... consider these arrangements much more carefully than they have up to now... Expanded employee profit participation and stock ownership would provide workers with a greater measure of economic and social independence, thus stimulating increased productivity.

  Jacob K. Javits

  Wisdom, Country, Jobs

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• Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Success, Encouraging, Simple

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• The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Politics, Input

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• Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

  Charles H. Percy

  Wisdom, Pressure, Faces

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