Quotes About Productivity

You can bargain for better wages, you can bargain for higher productivity bonuses. But once the bargain has been struck, then you must enter into the spirit of the agreement, and put in an honest day's work for an honest day's wage. There must be no fooling around, work means discipline. Singapore's success depends on the spirit in which workers, management and government, all three, enter into the spirit of cooperation, necessary for prosperity.

Political systems that yield inferior economic performance will ultimately be discarded for those that are more productive

I'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll just sit down and I'll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I'm better doing a rushed job because if it isn't something that's due quickly, I won't work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I'll do it.

I think the most important thing is to be busy, because if you have work occupying you, you don't have time to worry about the other serious problems in life.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

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All the structural problems that economists had warned about coalesced after 1973–74 to jolt American life. These included sagging productivity, declining competitiveness in world markets, accelerating inflation, rising unemployment, especially among minorities and the millions of baby boomers now seeking work, and a slowing down in the creation of good-paying, career-enhancing jobs outside of the increasingly dominant service sector.35

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

The point of simplicity is not efficiency, increased productivity or even living a healthier, more relaxed life. The point is making space for treasuring God's own self.

Creo [...] que todo hombre debe trabajar en alguna cosa. El dinero en sí no tiene importancia ni finalidad algunas; lo importante es emplear dignamente el tiempo.

Those who chose to be idle, certainly might.

You must work to live, not live to work.

I don't get writer's block because I don't believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.

Never leave cubby. Work appears when cubby is left unattended.

Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity - folding laundry, applying makeup - became tolerable when I did it while listening to a country singer describing his hardscrabble childhood, or a novelist defending her open marriage.

When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, it's very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.

I'm committed to working with business, both large and small, to make sure we don't impose unnecessary burdens or create damaging labour shortages.