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“In total, by giving people $30 bonus, Intel lost almost 5 percent of productivity. That's a lot. Now, think about it. You give money because you think this would increase motivation. It actually decreases motivation.”

People Thinking Giving Motivation Productivity

Author:Dan Ariely

“In New York, there's so much stuff going on all the time, and when I first moved here my productivity went down. I felt like I had certain social obligations. I found the more that I was like, "Don't listen to other music," or "Don't watch other things," and, "Don't go to other shows," for a specific time period, if I really need to complete something, that is the most helpful tool for me.”

Moved Productivity Obligation Helpful

Author:Kissey

“Manufacturing productivity is greatly determined by the design of jobs and how workers are rewarded.”

Design Determined Productivity

Author:James O'Toole

“Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is a prime example of an American company that uses employment conditions to boost productivity. Current CEO James Ziemer - who started with the company while in high school has negotiated imaginative contracts with the unions representing Harley's workers, agreeing to keep production in the U.S. in exchange for constantly reducing total labor costs through automating tasks and changing work rules. Because Harley regularly reassigns workers whose tasks have been automated to other parts of the company.”

School High School Labor Productivity Ceo Imaginative Motorcycle Harley

Author:James O'Toole

“In the 80s, Ford's successful introduction of the Taurus was, in large part, due to productivity gains resulting from the setting aside of outmoded work rules. Yet, inexplicably, union leaders ignored such efforts to foster employee involvement, much as unions largely stayed on the sidelines with regard to the equally promising practices of employee stock ownership and gain-sharing.”

Effort Leader Successful Productivity Employee Ownership Ignored Involvement Introduction

Author:James O'Toole

“Sadly, too many corporate leaders still believe that the way to boost productivity and profits is to continually reduce salaries, benefits, and training expenditures, a strategy that can be taken only so far. At a certain point in a developed society, salaries and benefits can't be slashed further and, in the long term, comparative economic advantage then must be realized through the effective mobilization of an educated, engaged, and loyal workforce.”

Believe Long Term Leader Taken Economic Training Strategy Productivity Educated Long Term Loyal

Author:James O'Toole

“One of the biggest concerns about going out beyond lower Earth orbit is the radiation. We find that exercise seems to counteract a lot of the negative effects of space flight, like bone loss and muscle atrophy and cardiovascular systems issues. We exercise two hours a day on the station, which is a huge hit out of your day. It's great for staying in shape, but you know, it cuts into the productivity of the crew and if you look at how expensive it is to get a crew into space, if we can keep them healthy and have them exercise, but spend less time doing it, we can get more done.”

Done Earth Hours Loss Cutting Exercise Healthy Concern Negative Bones Productivity Flight

Author:Leroy Chiao

“What's really clear to all of us in the business community is that GDP is slowing everywhere. And the reason is productivity has been declining now for 15 or 20 years all over the world. So we've got very high unemployment, and it's structural. And it's compounded by real-time climate change - that's really a game changer.”

World Reason Community Climate Change Productivity

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“If you don't want to join a union, you're gonna have much more opportunity for individual expansion, individual expression of talent and achievement. But when you go to work at a place where salaries are predetermined not by your productivity and not by your talent and not by how much you work, but rather by what the union contract is, you're locked into that no matter how good a job you do. The only option you have is overtime to make more than what standard pay is.”

Opportunity Individual Talent Achievement Productivity

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I think it's fairly easy to provide a moral defense of capitalism. It has been - over the last 200 years - the underlying basis for enormous increases in productivity and human welfare and rising living standards, particularly in the United States, and in the industrialized nations but in fact, in most parts of the world.”

Thinking World Easy Moral Capitalism Productivity Welfare

Author:John C. Bogle

“I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.”

Knows Problem Political President Study Economic Lows Scientist Election Defeat Productivity Factors Rising Unemployment Inflation Carter Economic Problems President Carter

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“In the eyes of many business leaders, there is never an opportune moment for tax reform. Yes, the economy is losing momentum, but that is not because a handful of people are losing their privileges. Slow growth did not first begin during my term in office; the market downturn is making itself felt around the world. My government has responded with an agenda aimed at raising productivity. We are also investing substantially in infrastructure - the plan calls for €20.5 billion or $26.3 billion by 2021.”

People World Moments Eye Growth Term Leader Economy Taxes Office Losing Productivity

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“Inflation is certainly low and stable and, measured in unemployment and labour-market slack, the economy has made a lot of progress. The pace of growth is disappointingly slow, mostly because productivity growth has been very slow, which is not really something amenable to monetary policy. It comes from changes in technology, changes in worker skills and a variety of other things, but not monetary policy, in particular.”

Growth Technology Economy Progress Policy Productivity Variety Inflation Monetary

Author:Ben Bernanke

“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.”

Children Hard Achievement Adults Deny Productivity Links Time Management Academic Robust Academic Achievement

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.”

Ifs Mean Quality Too Much Talent Products Pure Succeed Luck Productivity Selling Dumb Dependent Cycles Fickle Dumb Luck Raw Talent

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.”

Fall Numbers Paid Work Out Productivity Income Boss Decline Arrangements Flexible Falling Down Workforce Maternity Notches Childcare Maternity Leave

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Problem Motivational Actors Acting Mistake Successful College Productivity Tendencies Preparation Being Successful Scholarship Dice Yale Turned Down College Success

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.”

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”

Book:You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

“Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.”

“People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.”

“Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.”

Important Book Matter Productivity Strongest Relative Insignificant

Book:Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

“Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one.”

Writing Firsts May Important Book Matter Might Young Order Cases Achieve Poet Productivity Significant Lasting Strongest Relative Insignificant Young Writers

Book:Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

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

Years Opportunity Pleasure Creativity Huge Innovation Productivity Meaningful Creativity And Innovation Meaningful Work

Author:Jane Pauley

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.”

People Simple Deals Attention Positive Simplicity Productivity Time Management Kick Ass Positive Influence Productive Work

Author:Tom Peters

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”

Inspirational Political Force Inspiring Attitude Military Positive Positive Thinking Politician Optimism Army Strategy Productivity Optimistic Positive Attitude Perpetual Stay Positive

Book:My American Journey

Source: My American Journey

“Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.”

Mind Leadership Leader Details Productivity Neglect Distracted Vigilant

Author:Colin Powell

“The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.”

Important Powerful Talent Tools Important Things Productivity Cycles Very Powerful Outsourcing

Author:Azim Premji

“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”

“It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.”

Knows Inspirational Action Passion Knowledge Knowing Greatness Productivity Not Knowing Knowing What To Do Knowing And Doing

Author:Tony Robbins

“You always succeed in producing a result.”

Inspirational Action Results Succeed Productivity

Author:Tony Robbins

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.”

Motivational Funny Motivation Values Hours Wealth Ability Greatness Positive Thinking Paid Productivity Labour Wages Salary Best Work Mlm Creating Value

Author:Jim Rohn

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”

“When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.”

Moments Use Purpose Opportunity Forever Inspire Waste Productivity Filling Irreplaceable Squandering

Author:Menachem Mendel Schneerson

“Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.”

Way Has Beens Lasts Term Technology Industry Majors Productivity Consumers Touched Healthcare Adoption

Author:John Sculley

“That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.”

Stills Seems Political Social Environment Training Productivity Assault Consensus

Author:Will Self

“Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.”

Reason America Company Industry Plant Folks Committed Productivity Billions Expansion Automobile Freeze Closure Automobile Industry

Author:Joe Biden

“People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.”

People Knows Important Moments Use Chance Know How Talent Lucky Luck Sells Productivity Remarks Right Moment Fortune And Luck

Author:Frank Sinatra

“You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.”

Ifs Loss Class Economy Workers Productivity Motivated Working Class Dynamics Disenfranchised Disenchanted

Author:James Sinegal

“I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.”

Writing Made Available Productivity I Realized Flying More Time

Author:Simon Sinek

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