Quotes About Productivity

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.

It is not enough to just do your best or work hard; You must know what to work on.

As long as management is quick to take credit for a firm's successes but equally swift to blame its workers for its failures, no surefire remedy for low productivity can be expected in American manufacturing and service industries.

Poor quality begets poor quality and lowers productivity all along the line, and some of the faulty product goes out the door, into the hands of the customer. And unhappy customer tells his friends. The multiplying effect of an unhappy customer is one of those unknown and unknowable figures, and likewise for the multiplying effect of a happy customer, who brings in business.

It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to- that is what they must do.

Money and time spent for training will be ineffective unless inhibitors to good work are removed.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.

I can be on a telephone call, and be emailing or texting somebody else, as well. I would imagine everyone appreciates that efficiency of communication. I see it as a huge positive.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.

Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.