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• Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophy

  Denis Waitley (1985). “The Winners Edge”, Berkley

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• Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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• It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Passion, Knowledge

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2011

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• Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

  Stephen Hawking

  Giving, Purpose, Aliens

  "Stephen Hawking on Religion: 'Science Will Win'" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. June 7, 2010.

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• People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

  Frank Sinatra

  People, Luck, Important

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• If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

  Samuel Butler

  Long, Littles, Remains

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4161, Delphi Classics

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• The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.533

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• We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

  Jack Welch

  Motivational, Positive, Work

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• If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.

  Zig Ziglar

  Goal, Mind Your Own Business, Dreamer

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.165, Pelican Publishing

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• Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you - if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers - the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.

  Fred Brooks

  Thinking, Order, Cds

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• Where there is a will there is a way. Have faith in oneself and productivity will follow. nothing can stop you once you realize what it is you are trying to do. there will always be a way, given the right amount of time one can do anything. Never hesitate to do what it takes.

  Zac Brown

  Trying, Have Faith, Way

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• Productivity is less about what you do with your time. And more about how you run your mind.

  Robin Sharma

  Running, Mind

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Mar 17, 2015

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• Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.

  Mario Draghi

  Growth, Way, Prosperity

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• Creativity produces productivity.

  Mike Vance

  Creativity, Produce

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• Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work.

  Tom Rath

  Safety, Records, Getting High

  "Be Nice: It's Good for Business". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. August 2004.

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• Productivity starts with doing the right things.

  Bill Capodagli

  Right Thing, Doing The Right Thing

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Inspire, Secret, Littles

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• The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowledge Workers, Century, Assets

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.116, Routledge

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• The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Two, Growth, Economic

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• An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can!

  John C. Maxwell

  Organization, People, Leader

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.482, Harper Collins

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• Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force

  W. Edwards Deming

  Zero, Lying, Safety

  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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• The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, Morning, Motivation

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.95

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• Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

  Peter Drucker

  Time, Kick Ass, Manage

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• It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Top Management, Support, Quality

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• You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Successful, Yale, Want

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