Latest Michael Porter Quotes from Interviews

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• Apple does all of its research and development in America. It has all these brilliant people sitting in Silicon Valley. But until recently, Apple made nothing in America. Zero. And the jobs that were accessible to a good, well-trained worker that knew how to do welding or assembly, none of those jobs had stayed in America. We don't have the workforce.

  Michael Porter

  Zero, Jobs, Research And Development

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.

  Michael Porter

  Cutting, Average, Skills

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

  Michael Porter

  Generations, Problem, Economy

  Source: www.usatoday.com