Quotes about Productivity

Excessive productivity can bring the most gifted man almost to madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Productivity was obviously a good number. If it can continue to exist while unemployment remains at historically low levels, that says good things about the economy.

Alex Motola

These are really the intuitive products that women like because they enhance connectivity and communication. With more moms in the workforce, demand is also growing for personal productivity products like cell phones and notebook computers.

Frank Sadowski

We have taken a number of very important actions to improve productivity and reallocate resources to the faster growing areas of the business.

Mark Loughridge

Constantly trimming down the university employees, whether it is faculty or administration... I don't see how you can say that that is directly going to increase productivity when you load everyone else up with more work.

Steve Reilly

We're aiming for 35 percent productivity improvement next year. Working with Indian suppliers will be a key part of that.

Paul Coby

What I was trying to convince companies with the report is that if you're increasing productivity in the field, that has a pretty large impact on profitability. And there is still a need to improve productivity out there.

Russell Walters

Whether you consider an investment in conferencing to be a way to cut costs or to increase productivity, these tools will soon join the ranks as necessary tools for your company to compete in the worldwide economy.

Andrew Davis

It's as good as it gets. You've got low inflation, minimal wage pressure, great productivity, booming growth and strong demand.

David Resler

It's hard to blame productivity growth for a lot of manufacturing job losses.

Martin Baily

Productivity gains have been strong in the current period, allowing the economy to recover without creating jobs.

Don Fine

The federated presence capability in Cisco Unified Presence Server will ultimately help to drive enhanced communications and productivity within the enterprise.

Barry O'sullivan

I'm not suggesting that everyone have a little nap everyday. But I am suggesting that if you do have a day where you had a bad night's sleep and you're just dog tired, it's probably best to just have a half an hour nap. Then for the rest of the day, you'll be able to deliver a higher productivity.

Peter Mills

We are committed to continued expense management and strategies to improve productivity in 2006. Execution in these two important areas should contribute to the achievement of our goal of improving operating margins by 50 to 150 basis points for the year.

Martin P. Hughes

It's worrisome if it were to persist, but we have every reason to believe that productivity is going to bounce back in the first quarter.

Christopher Rupkey

Overall, the U.S. breeding herd has been trending lower as a result of the sow herd shifting to Canada and as a result of higher productivity.

Chris Hurt

In reference to prices, what matters are the laws of the market. If the junction of these two groups results in more productivity and efficiency, certainly steel production in the long term is going to grow and, with this, demand for iron ore.

Roger Agnelli

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity, to create a solid, sustainable foundation for wage increases and to ensure the country's development, for ourselves and for future generations.

Mario Draghi

Email is supposed to be this big productivity tool. But it's getting to the point where it is out of control.

Jeremy Burton

Productivity is the issue. If you have people that are sick or afraid to leave their house, I don't know how you can get around that. Semiconductor manufacturing plants are in China and it's not as if there are many back up plants around the world.

Jay Wong

High-speed mobile connectivity will change the way many users stay connected and in doing so will set a new standard of productivity for users on the go.

John Stratton

Are your office policies in sync with employee needs and desires? Knowing what keeps your employees happy will not only increase productivity and morale, but will also make employees less likely to quit.

Neil Lebovits

A backdrop of monetary tightening, high commodity prices, robust productivity growth and buoyant activity will continue to offer support to the peso.

Alberto Ramos

Have a lot of potential for increasing collaboration and improving productivity. The challenge is to help enterprises understand how [these technologies] can be used effectively.

Dave Nelson

These new enterprise-class enhancements to the desktop search capabilities we introduced last spring will empower IT professionals to deliver higher productivity, lower IT management costs and greater ease of use throughout their organizations.

Yusuf Mehdi

A strong top line, coupled with strong management and continuing productivity gains and sensible cost management has contributed to a very strong bottom line.

Jon Symonds

As they approach the new millennium, organizations are striving to realize new levels of competitiveness, productivity and customer service through the use of leading-edge information technologies.

Lawrence Weinbach

This machine moves us up a level to get higher productivity without increasing errors.

Percy Malone

We expect productivity growth to moderate, and compensation gains and unit labor costs to pick up. Just another piece of the puzzle that points toward more Fed tightening than the market currently expects.

Stephen Stanley

If you hit this stuff on the preventive end, people are going to be happier, healthier, there will be more productivity and less absenteeism and they will use [health] services less. It's the use of services that drive costs.

Gayle Tuttle

Offering mobility options is a tremendous productivity boost. Customers are becoming ever more mobile. In order to stay on top of your business, you need to get to your information wherever and whenever you need it.

Larry Ritter

We have made a good start to the year and we can maintain our full year guidance of 6 percent organic operating profit growth despite absorbing an increase in the cost of executing additional productivity initiatives in the second half.

Paul Walsh

The notebook especially has its place, particularly in productivity. What we'll see if evolution from the PC down.

Paul Chellgren

Low growth in GDP and a decline in productivity -- hours worked rose more than GDP -- implies margin compression and a sequential decline in operating profits.

Joe Carson

Sometimes I wonder if we're having a dramatic impact on the productivity of the American people, ... I've heard anecdotally that we've been banned in some workplaces.

Lisa Simpson

The productivity number came in better than expected and there were fewer jobless claims than forecast.

Al Goldman

We have had a 30-year period in which the real median wage has grown 9%, while productivity is up 80%. Almost none of that improvement has gone to the majority of the labor force.

Mark Weisbrot

IP telephony isn't just about toll bypass anymore. It's about improving productivity and allowing people to do their jobs more effectively. And people need to be able to communicate and collaborate through the means that suits them best.

Barry O'sullivan

Inflation is the wild card for 2006, with rising oil prices, an increase in commodity prices, slow productivity gains and rising interest rates.

Joseph Seneca

The difficulty is going to be convincing the members of Congress that whatever cost is associated with the reform is going to be made up in increased productivity.

William Bransford

The company's efforts to improve productivity and much more aggressively manage their asset base is really starting to become more evident, ... We see this certainly from the standpoint of the company being well ahead of schedule for its restructuring.

Nicholas Heymann

When the personal use is getting in the way of the employees' productivity on the job, that's where you're going to see the reprimand.

Kris Rzepkowski

It's an ideal notebook for anyone who wants optimum productivity and multimedia performance in a portable form factor, whether around the home or away.

Jeff Barney

To a certain extent, the demands on productivity are so strong and the pace of innovation is so great. There is tremendous pressure and need to spend money on the business infrastructure to continue to maintain and improve productivity.

Terrence Gabriel

When employees respect each other and get along in the workplace, it's amazing how productivity increases, morale increases and employees are more courteous to customers.

Maureen Wild

There is a power, and a danger in mobility. You can increase productivity. You can reduce cycle time. But the danger is the increasing complexity for your business. There is also the security risk.

Vicki Warker

On balance there has been some small increase in productivity that can probably be attributed to the (shorter) week.

Dr. John Martin

Right now, security is a major concern for companies that are using handheld devices to improve employee productivity.

Neil Strother

To get all those parties into discussions will lead to greater productivity.

Robert Best

It will also provide consultation services on assessment of training demand, post-training evaluation and productivity improvement.

Diep Thanh Kiet

I think it helped my creativity to be in a town that didn't have that influence. It helped the productivity to be in a place where there wasn't much structure. You had to make it happen for yourself.

Ben Romans

It is quite clear that the increase in productivity is not large enough to offset the full cost of the 35-hour week.

Dr. John Martin

People have been asked to do more with less. They've raised their productivity. But it is finally taking its toll. People are tired.

Karen Carlisle

I think the productivity numbers you saw this morning lessen the fears in the marketplace about the Fed raising rates.

Francis Gannon

This report confirms that economic growth is solid but not overheating. Employment continues to grow at a moderate pace and business continues to do a very effective job of maintaining company productivity and growth.

Stuart Schweitzer

The producer price numbers on Wednesday and the productivity number on Friday are the most important events we have ahead of the Fed meeting. There's still some uncertainty in the market about what the Fed will do and those numbers will be key to figuring that out.

David Greenlaw

I think they could probably get a very good labor agreement here that would allow them to control their costs, ensure productivity and eliminate their fears over flexibility.

Robert Chiaravalli

We are experiencing the bottom-line impact of productivity improvements and the elimination of waste.

Alain Belda

They found ... essentially ... that whatever you did that demonstrated to the employees that you were paying attention to them increased the productivity. Which is somewhat commonsensical -- that if you have happy employees, then they'll be more productive than unhappy employees.

Paul Lasley

Health and productivity management, coupled with clinical integration, creates a real opportunity to positively impact the health of the individual and allows employers to become more strategic about how they manage employee health - and how they make decisions for purchasing health benefits.

Tim Blevins

I don't think our productivity increases if we meet out in Greenwood, but it helps with access and transparency.

Sally Clark

At the end of the day, it comes down to productivity, and that means not being tied to an office.

Bob Venero

The vision was to have a healthier people, which leads to healthier teams and more productivity, ... And in the long term, having a healthier work force does address your bottom line by controlling benefit costs.

Peter Goodwin

If Ireland wants to produce high-paid, high-productivity jobs in the future we need state of the art IT infrastructure.

Jim Power

I have a simple theory. If the Seahawks win on Sunday, productivity is going to go up.

Brian Vincent

Now there is an admin who is solely responsible for the OS, and nothing above it. There is a separate admin responsible for JDM and nothing in the outside world. This consolidates costs, and allows for more productivity.

Chad Robinson

More companies are focused on the perceived productivity of having people on the job than are particularly worried about their health status when they are on the job.

Tom Billet

When Song was created, it had a lot lower costs and more productivity, ... That gap has closed between Song and Delta.

Paul Matsen

Do you really want to pay for all the excess functionality in Windows that distracts your employees and reduces their productivity?

Jack Messman

It's another opportunity for us to turn the airplane faster. Ultimately, what we get is more productivity out of the airplane. Anything we can do to get more out of that multimillion-dollar asset . . . is a good thing to us.

Sean Donohue

The bottom line is the productivity numbers were very positive for the market and gives more evidence there is a 'new economy' in place.

Joe Lavorgna

So far we've been pleased with our productivity inside our stores. When you look at getting the customer into the store and into the fitting room, it has been very, very successful for us.

Gary Muto

We as a nation lose if workers aren't healthy, ... It's an investment in workers' health and productivity to make sure they get the medical care they need.

Karen Davis

Probably 80 to 90 percent of our traffic is spam. It's really like a tax on the company because if a lot of it gets through, it affects employee productivity. And then there are harassment issues [from pornographic spam] and so forth.

Stan Schneider

The fact that there's a shakeout in the first generation of companies associated with it [the Internet] clouds the issue, but it is a tremendous productivity booster, ... The leading companies will benefit long-term.

Daniel Peris

To be successful, all of us are going to have to put aggressive productivity and cost reduction programs in place.

Kathleen Ligocki

The dependency of organizations on the engagement and productivity of its workforce makes attention to human capital during organizational change a critical priority.

Allan Schweyer

It's good to see that they are optimistic on improving productivity in the investment bank. Cost growth there has been a drag in the recent past, so that's a positive.

Victoria Stewart

Employers recognize that the value in tying awards to performance, as opposed to the holidays, better connects employees to the company's goals and objectives, eliminates 'entitlement' issues, and leads to increased productivity and improved business results.

Ken Abosch

Every part of an organization is dependent on documented procedures to mitigate risk and improve productivity and performance.

Deborah Kenny

One of the key things here is. . .the road infrastructure to improve Canada-U.S. trade, that's one of the best things we can do to improve productivity.

Dale Orr

Falling investment and poor productivity threaten Britain's long-term economic growth and competitiveness in the new global economy.

George Osborne

Significant educational investments will not only foster improvements in their health status, civic engagement and economic productivity, but also contribute to U.S. prosperity.

Marta Tienda

Our logic was: there's nothing more depressing than taking a whacking great pay cut. I'd increase pay to get the productivity stuff because the productivity piece gnaws at you day in and day out.

Robert Milton

As long as productivity growth maintains its recent pattern, then I think he'll be in a nice position to maintain price stability and robust growth.

Mark Gertler

We share a common mission with LSI to enable designer productivity and speed time-to-market. As an LSI partner, we can deliver a complete platform-based design environment to our Platform ASIC customers, enabling them to quickly create complete system-on-chip devices efficiently and predictably.

Serge Leef

Caring for staff is not just a matter of giving them superannuation, ... You have to look after health and safety too. If you have healthy, happy, well-balanced staff then you're going to get better productivity.

Eric Harrison

Employees don?t realize they are abusing the network and don?t understand how it impacts the rest of the business. That?s the real productivity issue.

Eileen Haggerty

We have two surprises in our economy: better-than-expected growth and lower-than-expected inflation, and the growth is based on productivity, ... People are working harder. They're generating more products efficiently at lower prices.

Edward Yardeni