Output Quotes

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

I write a thousand words a day.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

One of our favorite Joe Strummer quotes was, "No input, no output." Meaning, we're going to hear a band, we're going to go to a museum, or we're going to go hang out with some writer that we admire. We're going to get some input, because if we don't, then we have nothing. It's a circle. It's a respiratory thing.

The only way to buy more is to produce more.

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Growing up on a Cumbrian farm showed me first hand that you get out of life what you put in. If you don't put crops in the ground, you can't feed your animals or earn money.

The thing is to get the work done.

One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

If you're building a house, or doing anything, time is what you've got. Well, there's effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make.

In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.

The more you do, the more attrition you experience.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

Strummer's Law: No input, no output.

I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. That routine pays off for you. You get a lot of productivity that way, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration and waiting for the perfect thing to happen. I would be much less productive that way.

Regardless of how it is funded, consumption does not increase productivity; investment and innovation do.

Through great input you get great output.

A carbon tax by itself would make driving more expensive, that's very true. But in exchange for that, there are going to be more jobs, more output, more employment, and more products available. So really, as long as you're going to collect the revenues you're going to collect, you're going to have to trade off one tax for the other.

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.