Quotes About Productivity

En la China del siglo XXI se utiliza siete veces más energía que la que se emplea en Japón para producir productos del mismo valor. En este caso, las diferencias gigantescas en cuanto a la eficiencia también han significado diferencias gigantescas en el estándar de vida de millones de seres humanos.

To say that merit may be the same is not to say that productivity is the same. Nor can we logically or morally ignore the discrepancy in the relative urgency of those who want their shoes repaired versus those in need of brain surgery. In other words, it is not a question of simply weighing the interest of one income recipient versus the interest of another income recipient, while ignoring the vastly larger number of other people whose well-being depends on what these individuals produce. If

One of the reasons for paying people for their productivity, rather than their merits, is that productivity is far easier to determine than merit.

El hecho de que el trabajo sea más barato en Dubái que en Japón no es simplemente una casualidad. El trabajo es más productivo en los países más ricos. Ésa es una de las razones por las que estos países son más prósperos en general. La venta de equipamiento usado de países ricos a países pobres puede ser una manera eficiente de manejar la situación para ambos tipos de países.

Bajo un sistema de precios, la gente se raciona a sí misma. El racionamiento de recursos a través de los precios limita la cantidad que cada individuo puede tomar de la producción de otros a la productividad que cada individuo ha creado por sí mismo para otros, y que por lo tanto se ha ganado en calidad de ingreso. Los controles de precios, subvenciones y otros sustitutos a la asignación de precios, reducen los incentivos para el autorracionamiento.

Capital tends to be scarcer and therefore more expensive in poor countries, while labor tends to be more abundant and therefore cheaper. Poor countries tend to save on the most expensive factor, in the same way that rich countries save on a different factor that is more expensive and scarce there, namely labor. In rich countries, it is capital that is more abundant and cheaper, while labor is scarcer and more expensive.

It may be satisfying to castigate the likes of Geithner and the heads of Lehman Brothers and AIG, but safety experts like Perrow know it is far more productive to design better systems than to hope for better people.

A prosperidade ocorreu quando os frutos da produtividade foram amplamente partilhados; a inimizade, a turbulência política e mesmo a guerra declarada foram o resultado de uma desigualdade crescente. É óbvio que a generosidade é a estratégia robusta.

You've been busy, he said. Want something done, ask a busy person.

Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his days were spent being consumed rather than consuming.

never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.

office just wasn't a very good place for thinking, but every executive in the world pretended it was. Christ

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it is while prone that ideas come. "A writer could get more ideas for his articles or his novels in this posture than he could by sitting doggedly before his desk morning and afternoon," writes Lin Yutang in his essay "On Lying in Bed.

In the West, we have become addicted to work. Americans now work the longest hours in the world. And the result is not health, wealth and wisdom, but rather a lot of anxiety, a lot of ill health and a lot of debt.

people are insecure, they're not at their best. If they don't feel like they have the respect of their peers or their boss, they try to boost themselves through self-promotion. Instead of focusing on their work and feeling good about what they produce, they get sidetracked worrying about what other people think.

when people are insecure, they're not at their best. If they don't feel like they have the respect of their peers or their boss, they try to boost themselves through self-promotion. Instead of focusing on their work and feeling good about what they produce, they get sidetracked worrying about what other people think.

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

In effect, hunter-gatherers work two days a week and have five-day weekends.

Yet time is one of God's most precious gifts to us. It is the most significant nonrenewable resource at our disposal. We have less of it remaining with each passing day. When God gave this gift, He intended for us to use it carefully, intentionally, wisely, and productively.