Productivity Gain Quotes

The less you struggle with a problem, the more it's likely to solve itself. The less time you spend frantically running around, the more productive you are likely to be.

The quantity of industry therefore not only increases in every country with the increase of the stock or capital which sets it in motion; but, in consequence of this increase, the division of labour becomes extended, new and more powerful implements and machines are invented, and the same quantity of labour is thus made to produce an infinitely greater quantity of commodities.

Knowledge applied is productivity.

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

The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

It's all about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse.

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

The shift in demand is toward partners that can improve productivity, and in part, that can be done by software.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

Robots allow our employees to work safely, faster, and at less cost.

Method will teach you to win time.

How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this ‘job displacement’ has been very welcome, as will the ‘job displacement’ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.

I want an AI-powered society because I see so many ways that AI can make human life better. We can make so many decisions more systematically or automate away repetitive tasks and save so much human time.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.