Productivity Quotes - Page 21

• It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.

  Paul A. Baran

  Causes, United States, Investment

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.88, NYU Press

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• Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Thinking, Marketing

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.34, Vintage

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• Our current model of capitalism and the dominant ideas in policy making have led to a failure of investment by both the public and the private sector in the things that drive productivity, and which affect its distribution.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Policy Making, Ideas, Investment

  Source: www.salon.com

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• It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy.

  George Carlin

  Climbing, Views, Comedy

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that would be better. Or we pay wages in the public sector which are roughly equivalent to the productivity in the private sector and we don't therefore make it a special benefit to get a bureaucratic position.

  James M. Buchanan

  Trying, Special, Would Be

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• The intrinsic social structure, the family structure and so forth, is certainly in a very bad state. And I think that this is showing up in productivity. I think part of the reason, and I can't prove this, we're seeing a decline in some places is the breakup of the family, which is partly the result of an extreme form of individualism.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Breakup, Thinking, Showing Up

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• You can pay certain people more money and stuff but that's just going to be a transfer from one group to another. The only way people's wages are going to rise overall, or average median income is going to rise, is if you increase productivity.

  Charles Koch

  Average, People, Groups

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What we need to work on is how to increase productivity. And then everybody will be better off.

  Charles Koch

  Needs, Increase, Better Off

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• People generally worry about social networking more than they need to. In kind of consumer internet investing and on social and professional networks, I kind of look at time spending and time efficiency. You know, time saving sites. So on time spending sites, things where you play lots of games or that sort of thing, you might worry about a productivity loss if people are spending a lot of time doing that. So if there's a lot of kind of addictive gaming going on during work hours, that won't be as helpful to you.

  Reid Hoffman

  Loss, Games, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Most of the productivity gains appear to go to the top 1 percent. Most people don't have enough income and as a result, they borrow additional money by using their credit card and they fall into high debt. The result of the growing income gap is a slower growing GDP (too few people with money to spend) and a rising tide of indebtedness.

  Philip Kotler

  Fall, Gdp, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In the 80s, Ford's successful introduction of the Taurus was, in large part, due to productivity gains resulting from the setting aside of outmoded work rules. Yet, inexplicably, union leaders ignored such efforts to foster employee involvement, much as unions largely stayed on the sidelines with regard to the equally promising practices of employee stock ownership and gain-sharing.

  James O'Toole

  Successful, Leader, Effort

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. 2008.

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• The Trump administration's economic agenda is the right agenda. Corporate taxes have been driving capital and brains and companies overseas for a decade. It has caused huge damage in investment and jobs and productivity. It was a mistake. We have to fix it. Counterintuitively, that usually helps middle-class wages, and lower-class wages, and job formation.

  Jamie Dimon

  Mistake, Brain, Driving

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.

  Wole Soyinka

  Integrity, Initiative, Interest

  Source: secure.saharareporters.com

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• Health care is in as bad a shape as it has ever been after eight years of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party running it and running the US economy. It's an absolute disaster. Other areas of the economy are a disaster. Economic growth? There isn't any. It's 1% per quarter, a 4% growth rate per year if we're lucky. There is no expansion. There is no productivity increase.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Party, Growth

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Democrats have so corrupted our understanding of economics and productivity that lowering tax rates is now considered to be some kind of sop to the rich. I mean, it's just profound to me, the damage inflicted on this country by the Democrats in their pursuit of perpetual power.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Mean, Profound

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In total, by giving people $30 bonus, Intel lost almost 5 percent of productivity. That's a lot. Now, think about it. You give money because you think this would increase motivation. It actually decreases motivation.

  Dan Ariely

  Motivation, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In New York, there's so much stuff going on all the time, and when I first moved here my productivity went down. I felt like I had certain social obligations. I found the more that I was like, "Don't listen to other music," or "Don't watch other things," and, "Don't go to other shows," for a specific time period, if I really need to complete something, that is the most helpful tool for me.

  Kissey

  Helpful, Obligation, Moved

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Manufacturing productivity is greatly determined by the design of jobs and how workers are rewarded.

  James O'Toole

  Design, Determined

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is a prime example of an American company that uses employment conditions to boost productivity. Current CEO James Ziemer - who started with the company while in high school has negotiated imaginative contracts with the unions representing Harley's workers, agreeing to keep production in the U.S. in exchange for constantly reducing total labor costs through automating tasks and changing work rules. Because Harley regularly reassigns workers whose tasks have been automated to other parts of the company.

  James O'Toole

  School, Motorcycle, Ceo

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Sadly, too many corporate leaders still believe that the way to boost productivity and profits is to continually reduce salaries, benefits, and training expenditures, a strategy that can be taken only so far. At a certain point in a developed society, salaries and benefits can't be slashed further and, in the long term, comparative economic advantage then must be realized through the effective mobilization of an educated, engaged, and loyal workforce.

  James O'Toole

  Believe, Taken, Long

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One of the biggest concerns about going out beyond lower Earth orbit is the radiation. We find that exercise seems to counteract a lot of the negative effects of space flight, like bone loss and muscle atrophy and cardiovascular systems issues. We exercise two hours a day on the station, which is a huge hit out of your day. It's great for staying in shape, but you know, it cuts into the productivity of the crew and if you look at how expensive it is to get a crew into space, if we can keep them healthy and have them exercise, but spend less time doing it, we can get more done.

  Leroy Chiao

  Cutting, Loss, Exercise

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The way to improve productivity is not to bring in experts to talk about inputs - seed, equipment and materials, pesticides or water supply. The way to start is to provide an assured market, a fair price, and a system through which rural producers can market their produce which is reasonably efficient and can transfer to them the maximum share of the consumers' money. If such a structure is erected, the producers will then seek the inputs and materials they need to increase their production and productivity.

  Verghese Kurien

  Water, Experts, Needs

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• As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.

  Sam Altman

  Thinking, Numbers, Squares

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• There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour productivity growth rates. This is obvious. The overall demographic situation is very complicated.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Growth, Population

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Activity leads to productivity!

  Jim Rohn

  Activity

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