Productivity Quotes

The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

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

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

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

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.

Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.

Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

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.

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

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

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.

Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.

Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized.

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use.

... 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.

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

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.

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.

Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization.

Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

It is precisely through falling prices that the fruits of increased productivity and economic growth are spread throughout the market economy.

Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.

While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture.

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

Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

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.

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.

Medicine today invests heavily in information technology, yet the promised improvement in patient safety and productivity frankly have not been realized.

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

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

In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

Activity leads to productivity!

There is always more information than attention

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.