John Barton Quotes

I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.

In the early days, start-ups make the main mistake of hiring people to do the work that they could do themselves.

Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

Will the industry outsource more? I think it depends on the client base.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.

GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

What the global delivery model allows is, it allows you to take previously geographically core-located tasks, break them up into parts, send them around the world where the expertise and the cost structure exists, and then specify the means for reintegrating them.

Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.

Everyone has a different perspective and they all want their perspective to be addressed within the limited resources you have.

Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

I have always been a freelancer. I always work for myself.

The process of making an independent film is like building a mini Eiffel Tower with popsicle sticks - it doesn't happen overnight, and it's not easy.