Productivity Quotes - Page 9

• NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Technology, Reality

  126 Copy quote

• There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Leadership, Freedom

  160 Copy quote

• No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.

  Brian Tracy

  Priorities, Technique, Matter

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression.

  Louis Althusser

  Struggle, Class, Division Of Labor

  75 Copy quote

• People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.

  Denis Waitley

  Moving, Procrastination, People

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.

  Billy Joel

  Book, Writing, Mean

  "Billy Joel on Not Working and Not Giving Up Drinking". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. May 24, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

  Alan Greenspan

  Difficult

  4 Copy quote

• In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

  Bill Gates

  Improvement, Computer, Decades

  "Gates to Complex: PCS Work Poorly". www.wired.com. November 12, 2001.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.

  Michael Oxley

  Home, Technology, Order

  55 Copy quote

• Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with deprivation of a securely encompassing community, we have sought to quell the vulnerability through our possessions.

  Paul L Wachtel

  Loneliness, Stress, Believe

  6 Copy quote

• Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Self, Goal

  4 Copy quote

• Leaders should get out of their comfort zone but stay in their strength zone. When their work lies within their natural gifting and strengths, leaders experience the greatest return in productivity and contentment. Life is too short to live in the comfort zone, where growing and accomplishing and achieving your potential takes a back seat. I suggest you refocus if the comfort zone is your leadership priority.

  John C. Maxwell

  Lying, Life Is Too Short, Priorities

  7 Copy quote

• I am convinced more than ever that good communication and leadership are all about connecting. If you can connect with others at every level -one-on-one, in groups, and with an audience-your relationships are stronger, your sense of community improves, your ability to create teamwork increases, your influence increases, and your productivity skyrockets.

  John C. Maxwell

  Teamwork, Communication, Community

  4 Copy quote

• What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can’t be mass marketed.

  Claire Vaye Watkins

  Expression, Essentials, Incredibles

  4 Copy quote

• The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  America, Wages, Unusual

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.

  Tom Rath

  Stress, Creativity, Hands

  Tom Rath (2013). “Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes”, p.37, Missionday, LLC

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

  Richard Koch

  Average, Effort, Celebrate

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less”, p.39, Crown Business

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil. So direct, is the relationship between soil erosion, the productivity of the land, and the prosperity of people, that the history of mankind, to a considerable degree at least, may be interpreted in terms of the soil and what has happened to it as the result of human use.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Struggle, Men, Erosion

  20 Copy quote

• Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Productive Life, Walking Away

  Twitter post from Oct 9, 2014

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.

  Tom Rath

  Quality, Spirit, Absence

  4 Copy quote

• The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Environmental, Generations

  24 Copy quote

• Selling your life to sit in a box and work for a machine. An uncaring machine that demands productivity that doesn't understand you and doesn't want to understand you... There's no natural behaviour. Everyone is wearing clothes they don't want to wear. Everybody is showing up and doing something they don't want to do. They have no connection to it. That's the problem with our society.

  Joe Rogan

  Clothes, Connections, Behaviour

  40 Copy quote

• I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers. They were so stressed by this behavior that they suffered from a high incidence of alcohol and substance abuse, divorce, job-jumping, and low productivity. In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.

  Ron Willingham

  Jobs, Integrity, Divorce

  Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.13, Crown Business

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

  Manmohan Singh

  Cutting, Ideas, World

  15 Copy quote

• Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fashion, Art, Mean

  "A Short Organum for the Theatre". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1949.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source