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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. -- Franz Kafka
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. -- Paul J. Meyer
Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth. -- William E. Simon
Productivity isn't magic. It's discipline. -- Darren Hardy
Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict. -- Alan Greenspan
Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity. -- Mario Draghi
Order - the accurate arrangement of things - increases productivity. Productivity decides rewards. -- Mike Murdock
Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world. -- Robin Sharma
Productivity is less about what you do with your time. And more about how you run your mind. -- Robin Sharma
Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized. -- Steve Pavlina
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level. -- Bill Shorten
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. -- Paul Gauguin
Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other. -- Rob Pike
Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation... -- Peter Drucker
Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful. -- Janet Yellen
Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals. -- Dan S Kennedy
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance. -- J. R. D. Tata
Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with. -- Janet Yellen
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. -- Ian McLeod
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions. -- Michael Dell
Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time. -- Roy Romer
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. -- Shia LaBeouf
We commissioned an independent statutory economic body - the Productivity Commission - to review the possibility of funding a disability scheme. The commission returned with a view that it could. Then it becomes an issue of national will. -- Bill Shorten
I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it. -- Douglas Wilson
Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak. -- Sloane Crosley
Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more. -- Henry Ford
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. -- Tony Robbins
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. -- Benjamin Franklin
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. -- Benjamin Franklin
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. -- Bruce Lee
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. -- Bruce Lee
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. -- Stephen King
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. -- Aristotle
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. -- Tom Peters
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. -- Peter Drucker
If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves. -- David Allen
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately. -- Stephen Covey
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
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! -- Tony Robbins
An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital. -- Karl Marx
When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever. -- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time - but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted. -- Gretchen Rubin
You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done. -- David Allen
Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity. -- James Sinegal
Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work. -- Zig Ziglar
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness. -- Kathryn Minshew
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. -- Peter Drucker
Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business. -- Carlos Slim
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people. -- Julia Gillard
Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity. -- Robin S. Sharma
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard. -- Jack Welch
The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles. -- Azim Premji
The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization. -- Ken Blanchard
Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means. -- Alan Greenspan
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. -- Fred Brooks
A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity. -- Mary Garden
Most of my ideas are based on the latest research on productivity, performance and mental mastery - that's why so many iconic companies bring me in to help them grow and win. -- Robin S. Sharma
The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending. -- Vince Cable
On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity. -- Bill Gates
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
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens. -- Joshua Foer
Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains. -- Mark Skousen
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. -- Tim Jackson
Happiness inspires productivity. -- Shawn Achor
Creativity produces productivity. -- Mike Vance
Activity leads to productivity! -- Jim Rohn
Knowledge applied is productivity. -- Peter Drucker
Physical activity promotes high productivity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Good well-being promotes good productivity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Never confuse activity with productivity. -- Rick Warren
Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity. -- W. Edwards Deming
The sofa is the enemy of productivity. -- Demetri Martin
Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts. -- Richard Koch
Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity. -- Eliyahu M. Goldratt
You will boost your productivity with active exercise. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Your productivity will double with increase physical activity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can! -- John C. Maxwell
Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization. -- Christine Lagarde
If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. -- Tony Abbott
Best productivity tool ever invented? Easy...the word "no". -- Robin Sharma
Physical exercise promotes positive self-image, high-productivity and energetic wellbeing. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity. -- Walter Brueggemann
Individual income can grow only as fast as productivity rises. -- Alex Berenson
The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques. -- Shannon Wheeler
Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce. -- John Hoeven
The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work. -- William E. Conway, Jr.
Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity. -- Tariq Anwar
Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. -- Maria Popova
To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete. -- Marston James
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. -- Robert Solow
Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy. -- Robin Sharma
Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world. -- Satya Nadella
In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth. -- Bob Frank
This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment. -- William Randolph Hearst
Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity! -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered. -- Brian Tracy
I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world. -- Clint Eastwood
Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging. -- Merlin Mann
Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village. -- Iqbal Quadir
The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity. -- Tom Rath
Therefore, to maximize your productivity, deliberately focus on precisely one thing at a time. -- Oran Kangas
Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity. -- Rita Mae Brown
It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy. -- George Carlin
Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it. -- Ronald Reagan
I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness -- George Allen
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class. -- James Altucher
Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer. -- Peter Drucker
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. -- Erma Bombeck
Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls. -- Charles H. Percy
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. -- Alan Watts
The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity. -- Mitchell Kapor
The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity. -- Mitchell Kapor
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. -- Steve Jobs
Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward. -- Erving Polster

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