#prod

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#because #doing #during #erase #her

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#important #insignificant #matter #productivity #really

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. ↗

— Barack Obama

#built #chasing #come #could #country

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#content #does #forms #get #job

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#illegal #product #selling #were #would

We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#almost #another #bros #company #created

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#best #even #good #history #ibm

Well, I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they've been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I've used them for many, many years. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#believe #good #had #i #i believe

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#apply #book #make #own #produce

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. ↗

— Ross Perot

#cobweb #customers #deals #doing #engineering