Best Productivity Quotes

Never mistake motion for action.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

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

It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.

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

Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased enormously since I moved to Haiti. That’s where I write my stories, develop my ideas and write nonstop, so it’s a productive time, not a sleepy time.

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 technology and productivity. And what we have seen during that period is a massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent of America

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

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 excludes competition. Even that alone is evidence of its lesser economic productivity.

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

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.

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

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 skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

Procrastinate strategically… Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity.

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.

I’m sometimes asked about my productivity, which I find a bit embarrassing to be honest. I don’t really have a particularly interesting answer to this question.

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

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

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world’s cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world’s rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world’s forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

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

There is no need for a fear of losing control over who is accessing the network to hold back the productivity benefits of flexible working. By examining their access strategy, businesses can implement practices that will keep data secure and control access what and from where.

Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers’ salaries. It’s the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Knowledge applied is productivity.

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation.

There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man’s oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.