Low Productivity Quotes

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

We've been around about 20 years and we only have, what, two records? We're not terribly prolific.

I don't get too much work to begin with, and whatever I get is mostly not good enough.

I'm lucky if I write a letter.

A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.

In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it's a new normal. It's just not true: We've had multiple wars; we're not educating our kids. We had government shut downs, badly-spent money, failures in the health system, failures and an extreme amount of regulation - that's why we're going slow.

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

I'm pretty slow at writing papers.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

I only do few films, so when one comes out, it is a big deal for me.

You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.

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.

Between 1972 and 1976, I really didn't do much.

Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.