#productivity

Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America. ↗

— Joe Biden

#another #auto #automobile #automobile industry #back

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#assume #been #bring #cheaply #either

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization. ↗

— Ken Blanchard

#goals #group #how #members #organization

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#education #i #i think #increases #industry

We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down. ↗

— Chester Brown

#behaviour #deal #down #economic #go

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#coercive #conform #decree #distribution #element

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people. ↗

— Julia Gillard

#education #future #growth #innovation #our

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#before #being #never #productivity #things

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about? ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#productivity #time #truth #business

There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity. ↗

— Gray Davis

#america #been #california #contribute #disproportionately