Quotes About Productivity

Small batch sizes result in less WIP, faster lead times, faster detection of errors, and less rework.

If we single-task on the most important project for two weeks and still aren't able to make a big dent, then I think we should all find new day jobs.

now some of the best engineers in the company are working on making everyone else more productive. That's the way it should be, she thinks.

limit on [team] size ... ensures the team has a clear, shared understanding of the system they are working on. As teams get larger, the amount of communication required for everybody to know what's going on scales in a combinatorial fashion.

Another way we can enable more market-oriented outcomes is by enabling product teams to become more self-sufficient by embedding Operations engineers within them, thus reducing their reliance on centralized Operations.

integrating the objectives of QA and Operations into everyone's daily work reduces firefighting, hardship, and toil, while making people more productive and increasing joy in the work we do.

Unplanned work is what prevents you from doing it. Like matter and antimatter, in the presence of unplanned work, all planned work ignites with incandescent fury, incinerating everything around it. Like Phoenix.

When you channel your thinking, your mind becomes much more productive.

My best advice to a comedy writer is to set a quota and stick to it. It needn't be a demanding quota, but it must be inflexible.

Most people dont buy talent; they buy results.

Practicality is a great help when it comes to getting things achieved,

There's a Lego in my bum which fits with the Lego in my chair and when I sit down to write, I hear the satisfying snap of the two pieces fitting together.

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.

When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glancing at the clock, wishing it was time to go out. Then, when I'm out, I'm wondering how long it will be before I'm back home.

By contrast, the early majority want to buy a productivity improvement for existing operations. They are looking to minimize the discontinuity with the old ways. They want evolution, not revolution. They want technology to enhance, not overthrow, the established ways of doing business. And above all, they do not want to debug somebody else's product. By the time they adopt it, they want it to work properly and to integrate appropriately with their existing technology base.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Man sollte nie so viel zu tun haben, daß man zum zum Nachdenken keine Zeit mehr hat.

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

Query 1. Whether there ever was, is, or will be, an industrious nation poor, or an idle rich?

A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

Speed his plow.