Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. — Andrew Grove
The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity. — Tim Ferriss
Programming productivity is a precious and fragile thing stemming from great focus. Maintaining it requires active protection from the individual and organization. — Greg Brockman
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance. — J. R. D. Tata
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength. — Stafford Cripps
Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world. — Satya Nadella
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. — Peter Drucker
Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity. — W. Edwards Deming
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. — Charles Dickens
Many business leaders still believe that time on-task equates to productivity. — Matthew Walker
Short Business Productivity Quotes
Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business. — Gary Keller
In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property. — Charles Handy
Busy is the death of productivity. — Naval Ravikant
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities. — Mahatma Gandhi
Creativity is, after all, lauded as the engine of business innovation. — Matthew Walker
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. — Michael Porter
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. — Steve Jobs
Top 10 Business Productivity Quotes
Ideas are easy. Turning them into a successful product is hard. — Jeff Bezos
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. — Peter Drucker
A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great. — Naval Ravikant
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses. — Peter Diamandis
A need is what you believe your customers require to solve a problem, and the product or business becomes the mechanism to fulfill that requirement. — Pat Flynn
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships. — H. Ross Perot
We can easily run a business with less, although to many people that seems counterintuitive. — Paul Jarvis
If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better. — Jeremy Jackson
So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands. — Peter Andre
Business Productivity Image Quotes
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
Monday Business Quotes
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to. — Richard Branson
Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. — Lucille Ball
This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock? — Zig Ziglar
I think I need to keep being creative not to prove anything but because it makes me happy just to do it... I think trying to be creative, keeping busy, has a lot to do with keeping you alive.
The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress. — Seth Godin
Never call your broker on Monday. Out of courtesy and common sense, wait until Tuesday. A good broker is focused on the opening of the market - at home and around the world - and on getting back into a business frame of mind after the weekend. — Nancy Dunnan
Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday. — Stephen Colbert
Employee Productivity Quotes
Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products. — Jack Welch
Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability. — Anne M. Mulcahy
We would rather have our employees running our business. — James Sinegal
We also started asking all new employees to build an app using Twilio—not just the developers, everybody. — Jeff Lawson
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness. — Kathryn Minshew
In order to attract and keep superior staff, I paid wages and bonuses well above the market rate. This actually saved money because my employees were far more productive than average. — Edward O. Thorp
When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today. — Dave Ulrich
Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems. — Sayings
A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product — Richard Branson
When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive. — Sheryl Sandberg
Productivity And Efficiency Quotes
Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too. Do not let the org chart get in the way of people working productively together. — Sam Altman
Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment. — Michael Ray
For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management. — Ginni Rometty
No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward. — Shawn Achor
Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation. — Murray Rothbard
Companies of One question their systems, processes, and structure to become more efficient. — Paul Jarvis
And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings. — Sherwood Boehlert
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. — Lao Tzu
All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing. — Akio Morita
Business Efficiency Quotes
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates
Create flow. Monetize flow. Then add friction. — Alex Hormozi
Two big lessons: 1: Never use a token you created as collateral. 2: Don't borrow if you run a crypto business. Don't use capital 'efficiently.' Have a large reserve. Binance has never used BNB for collateral, and we have never taken on debt. — Changpeng Zhao
You want a business so simple an idiot could run it. Then, run it better than an idiot. — Alex Hormozi
Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy. — Sayings
We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems. — Janet Holmes a Court
Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices — Warren Buffett
Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture. — Apolo Ohno
To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other. — Patrick Rothfuss
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite. — Ronald Reagan
The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new product, process or method of production, a new market or source of supply, a new form of commercial, business or financial organization. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Many business owners dream of having their product or service endorsed by a global celebrity. But instead of trying to get a superstar to support your business, try seeking out a local celebrity instead. — Lewis Howes
I always was interested in the combination between creation and products. When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success. It’s what I do with fashion today, with cosmetics, in this group, is to mix creativity and business sense. — Bernard Arnault
The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle — Ellen MacArthur
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. — James C. Collins
I don’t know what a business is. All a company is, is a bunch of people together to create a product or service. There’s no such thing as a business, just pursuit of a goal — a group of people pursuing a goal. — Tim Urban
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. — Thomas A. Edison
I create a lot of my content in one or two days for the next month because I can get really creatively inspired and then I can spend the rest of the couple of months thinking about other creative ideas but focusing on business, logistics, being effective, practical, and productive. — Jay Shetty
Under-slept employees are not, therefore, going to drive your business forward with productive innovation. Like a group of people riding stationary exercise bikes, everyone looks like they are pedaling, but the scenery never changes. The irony that employees miss is that when you are not getting enough sleep, you work less productively and thus need to work longer to accomplish a goal. This means you often must work longer and later into the evening, arrive home later, go to bed later, and need to wake up earlier, creating a negative feedback loop. Why try to boil a pot of water on medium heat when you could do so in half the time on high? People often tell me that they do not have enough time to sleep because they have so much work to do. Without wanting to be combative in any way whatsoever, I respond by informing them that perhaps the reason they still have so much to do at the end of the day is precisely because they do not get enough sleep at night. — Matthew Walker
We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity. — Michael Oxley
It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce. — Jared Kushner
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers. — Stanley Crouch
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production. — Alex Tabarrok
Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices, and staffing. — Janet Yellen
We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'. — Herb Kelleher
Any industry in which people complain about their *sshole boss is likely part of the bezzle, because bosses can only really afford to be *ssholes in the economic fake reality of the bezzle. In a productive firm offering valuable service to society, success depends on pleasing customers. Workers are rewarded for how well they do that essential task, and bosses who mistreat their workers will either lose the workers to competitors or destroy their business quickly. In an unproductive firm that does not serve society and relies on bureaucratic largesse for its survival. — Saifedean Ammous
We don’t like failures. We try to avoid them. That is why with many of our products, we make a limited number. We do not put the entire company at risk by introducing all new products all the time. In any given year, in fact, only 15% of our business comes from the new; the rest comes from traditional, proven products – the classics. — Bernard Arnault
A Company of One is not anti-growth, or anti-revenue, and it’s not just a one-person business either (although it certainly can be). — Paul Jarvis
Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined. — Bob Iger
If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music. — Gary Arnold
Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Value creation involves making people's lives better. It is contributing to prosperity in society. — Charles Koch
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. — Guy Kawasaki
There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two. — Malcolm Forbes
This is how Warren Buffett, one of the most successful people in the business world, describes his typical day: ‘I just sit in my office and read all day.’ — Gautam Baid
You’re not in the business of selling a product, you’re in the business of selling a vision. — Russell Brunson
Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool. — Phil Knight
Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative. — Lee Kun-hee
Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model. — Steve Blank
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