Productivity Quotes

355 Productivity quotes by 275 unique authors

Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency. — Rands
I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly… — Mitchell Kapor
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. — Paul Hawken
Why do anything unless it is going to be great? — Peter Block
The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of… — Robert Trout
Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work. — Rudyard Kipling
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,… — William E. Simon
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness. — Kathryn Minshew
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… — Fred Brooks
Countries don't go out of business....The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources donâ€™t go away. And… — Walter Wriston
Throughout the history of the Internet, most of the innovation has come as a by-product of efforts to facilitate communication within social groups of various… — John Quiggin
The public firm can nowhere maintain itself in free competition with the private firm; it is possible today only where it has a monopoly that… — Ludwig von Mises
Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical… — David Holmgren
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL… — Peter Drucker
Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can! — John C. Maxwell
The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no longer justified. All… — Bruce Eckel
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… — J. R. D. Tata
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and… — Albert Shanker
Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't.… — Robert I. Sutton

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