Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
“In an abundant world, productivity is about eliminating bad habits; then adding good ones. In an abundant world, knowledge is about filtering,… — Vizi Andrei Copy Share Image
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with being productive. I like doing things, and I like creating things. — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Under stable and incremental conditions, a free-market economy spurs entrepreneurship, ensures efficiency, and generates wealth. Those conditions no longer apply. — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
People generally worry about social networking more than they need to. In kind of consumer internet investing and on social and professional… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines,… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Efficiency is about doing things right. Effectiveness is about doing the right things.” — Mani S. Sivasubramanian Copy Share Image
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
“Decide when you want to leave work and you’ll know how many hours you have. Slot in what you need to get… — Eric Barker Copy Share Image
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Most people on the face of the earth do not know what to do with their time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Corporations spend thousands and thousands of pounds every year trying to achieve efficiency in departments where, in my opinion, a simple seating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Farmers are happy so long as their net income will not be adversely affected. In organic farming, in the first couple of… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Being a slow reader would normally be a deficiency; I found a way to make it an asset. I began to sound… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Make sure that you intentionally bring out results and positive products and the world will celebrate you.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
“...she had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross… — James Carroll Copy Share Image