Productivity Quotes

In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

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

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.

It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.

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

The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques.

Happiness inspires productivity.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

Growth in productivity has diverged from growth in the share that working people can expect right across advanced economies, but this trend started earlier and has been more pronounced in the U.S.

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

Knowledge applied is productivity.

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

I'm sometimes asked about my productivity, which I find a bit embarrassing to be honest. I don't really have a particularly interesting answer to this question.

Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.

The gospel moves us to see others as people created in God's image and that can have a profound impact on people's productivity and work satisfaction.

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

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

Quantum Leap Thinking [is] an opportunity to get our energy out and target it in the direction of great productivity, leaving us with a feeling of accomplishment.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

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.

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can!

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

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.

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

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.

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.

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

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

There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

What we need to work on is how to increase productivity. And then everybody will be better off.

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

The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but -- and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move.

They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence ... to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

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.

Manufacturing productivity is greatly determined by the design of jobs and how workers are rewarded.

Hunting, fishing, and trapping is literally perfect. It's the perfect system by which to balance and ground the animal populations for next year's productivity.

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

Productivity starts with doing the right things.

Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.