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“Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.”

Produce Increase Management Productivity Employee Wages Morale Turnover

Author:Jim Hightower

“Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.”

Giving Trying Two Light Fall Watches Giving Up Weak Defeat Refuse Productivity Categories Thank You Crutches Insomniac

Author:Sloane Crosley

“We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web.”

People Way Social Media Performances Rate Social Media Active Productivity Versions Employee Internals Effectiveness Measurement

Author:Sandy Carter

“In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.”

Years Different States Lasts Lost Periods Depression Productivity Billions Employers Gdp

Author:Patrick J. Kennedy

“Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.”

Perfection Add Excellence Productivity

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.”

Simple Skills Productivity Love Yourself

Author:Chuck Jones

“Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

“Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.”

Problem Creativity Records Environment Empathy Intelligent Track Productivity Problem Solving Improving Track Record Work Environment

Author:Daniel Goleman

“You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”

Age Computer Productivity Statistics

Author:Robert Solow

“Never confuse activity with productivity.”

Activity Driven Productivity Purpose Driven Life

Book:What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life

Source: What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life

“Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. If you’re growing customer satisfaction, your global market share is sure to grow, too. Employee satisfaction gets you productivity, quality, pride, and creativity. And cash flow is the pulse—the key vital sign of a company.”

“The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.”

Seems Goal Leadership Inspiring Groups Depends Members Organization Relation Productivity

Author:Ken Blanchard

“Work hard, have fun and make history.”

Hard Fun Hard Work Productivity Having Fun

Author:Jeff Bezos

“We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.”

Humans Long Natural Path Century Depends Resources Environmental Productivity Headings

Author:Paul Hawken

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”

Focus Busy Productivity Productive Kick Ass Being Busy Productive Work

Author:Tim Ferriss

“The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.”

Greater Economic Higher Resources Areas Entrepreneur Productivity Yield Creative Destruction Economic Resources

Author:Jean-Baptiste Say

“The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head.”

Easier Productivity

Author:Richard Bandler

“I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Government School Can Do Taxes Institutions Productivity Best Things Our Society Hospitals

Author:Tony Abbott

“You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.”

People Ifs Care Enjoy Results Successful Rewards Productivity Where You Are Successful People

Book:Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals

Source: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals

“I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.”

Wealth Economy Greater Share Areas East Productivity Lifts North East

Author:John Prescott

“Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.”

Sides Growth Term Painful Productivity Short Term Disruptive

Author:Janet Yellen

“Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writing’s quality and your productivity.”

Writing Littles Helping Quality Novel Position Balance Succeed Productivity Preserves Islands Exhaustion Time Away

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.”

Stills Matter Today Past Productivity Procrastination Another Day Equal Opportunity Procrastinating Stop Procrastination Time To Kill Wasted My Time

Author:Denis Waitley

“See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.”

Jobs Misery Productivity

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.”

Purpose Values Next Growth Economy Creating Innovation Wave Profit Productivity Corporations Global Economy Shared Values

Author:Michael Porter

“Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.”

Want Together Ability Results Students Productivity Excitement

Author:Major Owens

“There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...”

World Equal Waste Ill Productivity Consultants Kick Ass Bad Decision Ineffectiveness

Author:Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

“There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.”

Way Inspirational Ends Light Positive Thinking Entrepreneur Productivity Heroic Tunnels Digging Think Positive Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel Positive Thinking Success Staying Positive In Life

Author:David Allen

“Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.”

People Ideas Shows Levels Effort Study Environment Share Trust Communication Increase Happy Productivity Employee Productive Engagement Workplace Work Effort Open Communication

Author:Arthur Miller

“Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.”

Produce Folks Productivity

Author:John Hoeven

“We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?”

“There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.”

Two Important Use Together Law Clear Limits Approach Solutions Tasks Critical Productivity Income Schedules Deadline Parkinson Parkinson's Inversions

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.”

Sometimes Energy Cutting Gains Productivity Productive Desks Cleaning Clearing Debris Cobwebs Forward Motion

Author:David Allen

“You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.”

Action Steps Projects Productivity Related Productive Things Done Getting Things Done

Book:Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“A strong currency means that American consumers and businesses can buy imported goods and services more cheaply and that inflation and interest rates will be lower, ... It also puts pressure on American industry to increase productivity and competitiveness. These benefits can feed on themselves as foreign capital flows in more readily because of greater confidence in our currency. A weak dollar would have the contrary effects.”

“If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.”

Ifs Want Focus Productivity Nine Rabbits

Author:Jack Ma

“Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.”

Wells Motivation Leader Capacity Organization Workers Productivity Destroyed Boss

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.”

Persons Matter Life Is Night Water Rich Wall Saint Productivity This Life Cake What Matters Costumes Magnificence Bingo

Book:Rococo: A Novel

Source: Rococo: A Novel

“Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.”

Mind May States Helping Use Light Hours Sleep Known Boxes Productivity Therapy State Of Mind Sunlight Spectrum Daylight Simulate

Author:Andrew Weil

“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.”

Facts Acceptance Morality Productivity Recognition You Choose Acquiring Knowledge Productive Work

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.”

Writing Reading Names Bears Independence Blind Raised Productivity Code Blindness Literacy Dots Reading And Writing Braille

Author:Bob Ney

“You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.”

Enough Productivity Frogs Ponds Tadpoles

Book:Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.”

Reason Goal Achieve Achievement Determined Productivity Achieving Your Goals

Author:Brian Tracy

“Pursue meaningful adventures.”

Adventure Productivity Meaningful Pursue

Author:Chris Guillebeau

“But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.”

Years Long Matter Problem Waiting Hours Watches Four Twenties Productivity Restless

Author:H. G. Wells

“Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.”

Productivity Opposition Wages

Author:James Sinegal

“For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.”

Writing Mind Long Certain Music Is Long Time Productivity Unconscious Appreciated Vaults Without Music

Author:John Hodgman

“We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.”

Ends Order Issues Finals Productivity Native Meaningless Factories Neurosis Docile Meaningless Life

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.”

Watches Productivity Awe Engineers Annoyed Amazement Inefficiency

Author: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 to help organize their lives.”

People Trying Ideas Helping Use Next Figures Tools Productivity Software Organize Figure Skating

Author:Mitchell Kapor

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