Michael Porter Quotes

I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness

I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness.

The skills and productivity of American Workers, .... are the greatest economic resource our country has.

Kansas businesses depend on high-skilled workers to be competitive and to contribute to the local economy.

I know things like a 20% corporate tax rate will allow us to be more competitive in the global marketplace. That's what our competitors enjoy today around the world. And when we're more competitive, we win in the marketplace, and that allows us to invest and grow for the future.

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

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

When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.

So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.

By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.

Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations.

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

Being an American doesn't mean that you're guaranteed a high wage. You have to be productive, and we have to create a very low-cost, efficient place to do business, and we've let all that slip in America.

Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.

Governor Romney, how many fewer college degrees would it take to make America more competitive?

… increased industrial efficiency makes it possible to procure the means of livelihood with less labor

If you need a tax credit to compete, you are probably not that competitive.

As our economy advances, educational attainment is going to keep Arizona competitive.

At the end of the day, we have to find a way to compete better with the world.

Using cheap and efficient energy makes every other American industry more productive, and thus makes American employers far more competitive in global markets. Productivity creates higher paying jobs in America; it doesn't destroy them.

We won't win in the world if we don't do more to upskill our own workforce.

American workers and American entrepreneurs can compete with anybody, anywhere if our government will stop making America a cost-prohibitive place to do business.

It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more efficiently and using less resources and less time than the competition?