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• As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.

  Sam Altman

  Thinking, Numbers, Squares

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• Bring on those tired, labor-plagued, competition-weary companies and ESOP will breathe new life into them. They will find ESOP better than Geritol. It will revitalize what is wrong with capitalism. It will increase productivity. It will improve labor relations. It will promote economic justice. It will save the economic system. It will make our form of government and our concept of freedom prevail over those who don't agree with us.

  Russell B. Long

  Wisdom, Tired, Government

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• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin”

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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

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

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Hard Work

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

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• Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods of production is a lower output produced. The price that invariably must be paid for taxation, and for every increase in taxation, is a coercively lowered productivity that in turn reduces the standard of living in terms of valuable assets provided for future consumption. Every act of taxation necessarily exerts a push away from more highly capitalized, more productive production processes in the direction of a hand-to-mouth-existence.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Hands, Taxation, Mouths

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• The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

  Peter Drucker

  Important, Knowledge Workers, Needs

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• It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

  Thomas Perez

  Loyalty, Mean, Wages

  "America Deserves a Raise" by Thomas E. Perez, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2014.

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• Everybody goes down to a least common denominator, and as a result, productivity goes down to zero. And we've seen that in every communist country around the world.

  Rafael Cruz

  Country, Zero, World

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept
  current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis,
  is a master key to stress-free productivity.

  David Allen

  Stress, Keys, Lists

  David Allen (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.102, Penguin

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• There's something very noble about bringing home a paycheck to provide for oneself and one's family. However, there's so much more to work than just a paycheck. This is unfortunately a very common view which I believe accounts in part for the statistic that approximately 70% of people are disengaged at work. Think about the loss of meaning and productivity and the staggering economic implications of that statistic.

  David Kim

  Believe, Home, Loss

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• CO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean hydrocarbons, such as synthetic gasoline. We can use CO2 to desalinate water, enhance the production of vegetables and fruit in greenhouses, carbonate our beverages and produce biofertilizers that enhance the productivity of the soil without poisoning it. Carbon negative technology is absolutely needed now.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Technology, Vegetables, Air

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, Media, Progress

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• Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

  David Rolf

  War, Today, Typical

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

  Isabel Allende

  Space, People, Age

  "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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• According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.

  David Bornstein

  Hands, Two, Yield

  David Bornstein (2004). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”, p.2, Oxford University Press, USA

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• From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy. It's almost easy to want to sit down at your desk when you have a free five minutes and try to clear out some of the incoming emails rather than strip things strategically and foundationally and ask about what the most important objectives for you and the company are.

  Ivanka Trump

  Keys, Perspective, Focus

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• I'm excited to just have somebody that I can protect. Someone I can make sure is superloved and never really experiences the turmoil that I went through with my family, to just have a really loving environment that grows intelligent and in love and breathes happiness and productivity.

  Nick Carter

  Intelligent, Environment, Excited

  "Nick Carter Reveals What He's Most Looking Forward to About Becoming a Dad". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. February 27, 2016.

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• Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Effort, Mind, Relaxation

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• Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

  Gabe Newell

  Games, Play, Differences

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

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• Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

  Robin Sharma

  People, Busy, Activity

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jun 21, 2014

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• As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

  Alex Campbell

  Mean, Excellence, Progress

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• The country has to change. Productivity in Australia more generally has got to improve. Some of the highest manufacturing costs in the world are coming out of Australia.

  Ian McLeod

  Country, Australia, Cost

  "Coles boasts about media campaign to silence 'milk war' critics" by Oliver Laughland, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2013.

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• ... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety. ... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Strong, Self Esteem, Opportunity

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.32, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.

  Steve Pavlina

  Creating Value, People, Should

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