Productivity Quotes

355 Productivity quotes by 275 unique authors

Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating… — Richard Pascale
Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have… — Herbert Hoover
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… — Lance Morrow
We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity,… — Chester Brown
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not… — Marco Arment
Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have… — Tim Bishop
There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and… — Gray Davis
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… — Vince Cable
For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most… — Jennifer Granholm
In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if it… — Edsger Dijkstra
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former… — Bertolt Brecht
The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995. — Capers Jones
Medicine today invests heavily in information technology, yet the promised improvement in patient safety and productivity frankly have not been realized, — Peter Pronovost
Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving… — Peter Drucker
Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with… — Paul L Wachtel
The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been… — Barry Commoner
The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual,I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have… — Joseph Stiglitz
For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in… — Lindsey Graham
Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence all over the… — William J. Clinton
We have an opportunity to improve productivity and cut costs while growing our way to a better and a more comfortable operating environment. I don't… — Scott McNealy

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