Quotes of Productivity - somelinesforyou

“ Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. ”

- Jim Manzi

“ Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ”

- Andrew Grove

“ The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intellegent planning and focused effort. ”

- Paul Meyer

“ In principle, rapid productivity should make wages rise, but it seems that until the job market tightens up a bit, all the productivity gains flow to corporate profits. ”

- John Hancock

“ The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%. ”

- Jack Welch

“ This is a key element of the technology industry getting re-energized and putting productivity back into other sectors of the economy that can get the economy back to where it was a couple of years ago. ”

- Bill Gates

“ If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined. ”

- Paul J. Meyer

“ He did nothing in particular, And did it very well. ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals. ”

- Paul J. Meyer

“ None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated. ”

- Richard Buckminster Fuller

“ Inflationary pressures will be reasonably well contained, so long as productivity is moving at a reasonably good clip. ”

- Alan Greenspan

“ This is the first time a Kurd has been freely elected to be the president of an Arab country. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ But we also believe that by connecting into the world of personal productivity, we can also do something very different. ”

- Bill Gates

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

- George Allen

“ We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ 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. ”

- Lance Morrow

“ Employees tend to live up to their manager's expectations. If a manager's expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent. ”

- Unknown

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

- Raoul Vaneigem

“ The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. ”

- Thomas J. Peters

“ If you are not making the progress you would like, and are capable of making, it Is simply because your goals are not clearly defined. ”

- Paul Meyer

“ 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

“ Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountifield crop. ”

- Ovid

“ Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. ”

- Paul J. Meyer

“ The problem that exists here is that unless we can close the gap between supply and demand by accelerating productivity, which we are doing in part, then the prosperity that everyone is experiencing would be put in great jeopardy. ”

- Alan Greenspan

“ What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness. ”

- George Martin
  • 1
  • 2