Productivity Quotes

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

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.

Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.

In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it's no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we're worth

Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.

See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.

Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

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.

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

The sofa is the enemy of productivity.

Work hard, have fun and make history.

Productivity is less about what you do with your time. And more about how you run your mind.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Productivity isn't magic. It's discipline.

By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.

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.

This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.

Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.

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

The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

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.

Attitude is everything. It motivates action, which increases productivity and improves morale, which perpetuates a positive attitude.

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.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

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.

Creativity produces productivity.

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

Best productivity tool ever invented? Easy...the word "no".

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot be separated. Each flows out of the other.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

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.

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

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.

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

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!