Domain Quote by Vernor Vinge

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

— James Mackintosh

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Human labor, in general, is still divided into two exclusive categories: the first—solely intellectual and managerial—includes the scientists, artists, engineers, inventors, accountants, educators, governmental…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools,…

— Michael Lerner

Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite…

— Rudolf Christoph Eucken

“As you’ll see in the discussions ahead, the shortcuts and modern marvels of work don’t come without a cost. Thriving in the new era…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

“Productivity is the essence of life”

— Sunday Adelaja

The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the…

— Walter Bagehot

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as…

— William J. Clinton

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's…

— Ayn Rand

“Productivity, put simply, is the name we give our attempts to figure out the best uses of our energy, intellect, and time as we…

— Charles Duhigg