Diminishing Returns Quotes

Throwing money after security turns out to be a classic example of the law of diminishing marginal utility.

Law of Diminishing Returns: As the popularity of a candidate approaches zero, the probability that he or she will release a wildly bizarre video approaches 1.

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

Many talents hurt themselves by over thinking the business and doing too much which waters every thing down and makes major moves mean less.

After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.

To continue playing late into your twenties in the same style that you once played as a teenager is not possible.

I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.

When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of a particular room -- on successive occasions, we quickly begin to adapt to it, and the experience yields less pleasure each time. Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

It is quite plausible that the process of increased fragmentation of production across borders is subject to 'diminishing returns' and has its natural limits.

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

Years are like candy bars... We're paying more, but they're getting shorter.

I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

One who advances his name, destroys his name. One who does not increase, diminishes.

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.